Rulemaking in the dark: Little disclosure when big food lobbies the FDA
Last January, when the Food and Drug Administration released strict new rules for ensuring the cleanliness of food production, distribution and warehousing facilities, the American Bakers Association crowed in a press release that they'd "won a major victory" for its members. They had–the proposed rules wouldn't apply to many of their warehouses.
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Not mentioned in that press release was the person who helped the ABA achieve the win: Miriam Guggenheim, a food policy focused attorney with Covington and Burling. Though she has not been registered as a lobbyist since 2010–before Congress passed the Food Safety Modernization Act–her online biography notes that she "Successfully petitioned FDA for an exemption" for "most warehouses and distribution facilities." In her official bio, she describes her work as helping companies achieve "their marketing goals while minimizing regulatory and litigation risks."
Guggenheim's work on behalf of food industry heavyweights shows how much of the influence game in Washingtion still remains in the shadows. Not everyone who pushes private agendas in Congress and at regulatory agencies registers to lobby. Those who are registered to lobby disclose minimal information about their activities. And while agencies keep track of which special interests come calling and why, those records are rarely made available to the public without a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Using FOIA, Sunlight obtained memoranda of meetings for the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) over a two year period, yielded dozens of industry contacts with the regulators who oversee them. Industry group representatives were present at meetings four times as often as representatives of consumer interests. Sunlight has uploaded the documents we received on Document Cloud and created a searchable spreadsheet based on the documents, viewable below.
The records show that Guggenheim, who represents big trade groups and multinational corporations in the food industry, attended five meetings over the span of two years, more than any other outside visitor. Attending along with her were representatives from such corporations as Archer Daniels Midland, Monster energy drinks, and Mars Incorporated. Meeting topics ranged from groups pushing for speeded up approval for new color additives to labeling of fiber content in food.
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The CFSAN meetings give a picture of how the nation's food safety laws are influenced by outside interests at a time when the agency is under pressure to implement a major food safety law–the Food Safety and Modernization Act–itself a response to incidents of food-borne bacteria such has salmonella, e. coli, and listeria that have sickened and in same cases killed people. Congress passed the law in late 2010–it was one of the last acts of the outgoing House Democratic majority–and President Barack Obama signed the bill on January 4, 2011. That left it to the FDA to write the detailed rules that the food industry would have to follow to comply with the law, which also gives the industry a second opportunity to influence those rules, often with little or no scrutiny from the public or the press.
"This is supposed to be a transparent process. Under President Obama, things were supposed to be more so, but if anything it's gotten more opaque," says David Acheson, a former FDA official and president and CEO of the Acheson Group, which does consulting with industry about implementation of the Food Safety and Modernization Act. "There are people who want to follow the making of the sausage and why shouldn't you? It's all going to impact us and our family's health."
Acheson himself is listed as attending this March 2011 meeting to discuss implementation of the FSMA. He is not a registered as a lobbyist. His biography says he uses "his regulatory insight, food safety knowledge, and expertise in crisis response to food industry clients around the globe on how best to manage risk in a global supply chain and evolving regulatory landscape."
The meeting logs also show that Joseph Levitt of Hogan Lovells, is another frequent visitor at the FDA. Unlike Guggenheim, Levitt made a trip through FDA's revolving door, serving in various positions in the agency, including six years as director of CFSAN. His firm biography describes him as a 25-year veteran of the agency who "counsels numerous food companies and trade associations in food safety, labeling and compliance matters and how to work effectively with the FDA." Levitt declined an interview request by Sunlight.
Levitt is registered as a lobbyist for the Grocery Manufacturers Association; however, he has also appeared at FDA meetings with other industry groups, such as the National Chicken Council and the International Dairy Foods Association. Overall, the meeting records show his presence at four meetings. While he does not himself give campaign contributions, his firm's PAC and coworkers have distributed $1.8 million over the years, according to Influence Explorer. So far this election cycle, the PAC has distributed more than $125,000, almost evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.
Overall, the meeting memoranda, which provide details on 33 meetings over an approximately two-year time span, show that industry groups and lobbying, consulting, and law firms send far more representatives to meetings than do consumer groups. Representatives of consumer groups, such as Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food and Water Watch, and Consumers Union, were present at a half dozen meetings, or 18 percent. Industry groups sent representatives to 26 meetings, or 78 percent of the total. Lobbying, consulting, and law firm representatives were present at 17 meetings, most of those overlapping with industry clients.
The subjects of these meetings varied widely, and often involve industries in the middle of food safety controversies. For example, representatives of the American Spice Trade Association met with CFSAN staff twice, the first time on June 11, 2011, the second earlier this year, on April 15. At both meetings, the the group presented information on industry standards for keeping spices free of contamination. The FDA has been conducting an anlaysis that is expected to show that spices are a "surprising potent source of salmonella poisoning," according to an August New York Times report.
At a November 23, 2012 meeting, an executive from Monster and Covington and Burling attorneys, including Guggenheim, presented information about the safety of the company's controverisal energy drinks. The following month, in response to a FOIA request, the FDA released incident reports showing five deaths that may have been related to the energy drinks. Covington and Burling is listed as a lobbying firm for the company, although Guggenheim herself is not.
In fact, Guggenheim maintains a low profile. Though she is a frequent speaker at food industry pow wows, she does not talk to the popular media–she declined to be interviewed for this piece. She gives very little in campaign contributions, although colleagues and the PAC for her firm, Covington and Burling, are the source of $4.5 million, with PAC contributions split nearly evenly between the parties. She has registered as a lobbyist in the past, but has not been on the rolls since 2010.
And while she's a frequent visitor to CSFAN, none of the meeting records obtained by Sunlight appear to be about the warehouse exemption sought by the American Bakers Association with Guggenheim's help. That episode is a case study of how the sophisticated way such groups wield power in Washington, burying themselves in the arcane details and then picking the arena where they have the best chance for success.
Rather than securing a straightfoward exemption for warehouses in the Food Safety Modernization Act, the ABA pushed for language that would let the Food and Drug Administration decide the matter. This strategy is not uncommon: as Sunlight has reported, in 2008, industry groups pushed to give an expert commission, rather than Congress, the authority to decide whether particular plasticizers, known as phthalates, would be banned. That commission is now under heavy lobbying by ExxonMobil and other industry groups. In the case of the warehouse exemption, the paragraph the ABA suggested, which Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., included in the S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, reads:
"The Secretary may, by regulation, exempt or modify the requirements for compliance under this section with respect to facilities that are solely engaged in the production of food for animals other than man, the storage of raw agricultural commodities (other than fruits and vegetables) intended for futher distribution or processing, or the storage of packaged foods that are not exposed to the environment."
After Congress passed the bill in late 2010 and President Barack Obama signed it in early 2011, the ABA then relied on this authority when filing a citizens petition at the FDA–spearheaded by Guggenheim–asking for an exemption.
Joining the trade group in the request were several other food lobbying powerhouses: the American Frozen Food Institute, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the International Bottled Water Association, the International Dairy Foods Association, the International Warehouse Logistics Association, the Peanut and Tree Nut Processors Association, and the Snack Food Asssociation. Their argument in a nutshell: that warehouses that store only packaged foods that are "not exposed to the environment" are subject to safety rules at other points in the chain of production and that the groups are not aware of any "significant food-borne illness outbreaks" originating at such facilities.
Tony Corbo, a lobbyist for the consumer group Food and Water Watch, says that while such warehouses may be lower risk than other facilities where food is processed, they still need oversight. "A lot of these warehouses do have problems," he said. "Rodents are running around, there may be water seeping in and damaging boxes."
In 2011, for example, the FDA issued a warning letter to a Tacoma, Wash., warehouse where flour and sugar stored, where inspectors found rat droppings, gnawed bags, and a variety of dead flies.
While the FDA did not reply formally to the trade groups' petition for an exemption, the proposed rule issued by the agency contains several exemptions for warehouses, reported the ABA, "including one for non-refrigerated distribution warehouses such as those utilized by the baking industry."
The win isn't even the last bite the ABA will have at the apple. The FDA has twice postponed the comment period for the proposed rule. The new deadline is November 15. So now the industry groups are lobbying for further clarification and expanded language for the exemptions in the final rule.
Date | Visitor | Affiliation | Subject | Type |
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4/29/2013 | Deborah May | Wholesale Supplies Plus, Handmade Cosmetic Alliance | Cosmetic policy and possible legislative proposals | industry |
4/29/2013 | Mary Anne Walsh | Handmade Cosmetic Alliance | Cosmetic policy and possible legislative proposals | industry |
4/15/2013 | Cheryl Deem | American Spice Trade Association | spice safety | industry |
4/15/2013 | Kelley Poole | American Spice Trade Association | spice safety | industry |
1/15/13 | Ann Boechman | Kraft Foods | MiO Product — Energy drinks with Kraft Foods | industry |
1/15/13 | De Ann Davis | Kraft Foods | MiO Product — Energy drinks with Kraft Foods | industry |
1/15/13 | Frank Sabella | Kraft Foods | MiO Product — Energy drinks with Kraft Foods | industry |
1/15/13 | Jason Hlywka | Kraft Foods | MiO Product — Energy drinks with Kraft Foods | industry |
1/15/13 | Stacey Popham | Kraft Foods | MiO Product — Energy drinks with Kraft Foods | industry |
1/15/13 | Chris Doherty | Kraft Foods | MiO Product — Energy drinks with Kraft Foods | industry |
6/3/2011 | Diane Edquist Dorman | National Organization for Rare Disorders | Issues elated to access to medical foods for inborn errors of metabolism and other rare conditions | consumer |
2/7/2012 | Steven Mister | Council for Responsible Nutrition | FDA's draft guidance on new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications | industry |
2/7/2012 | Rend Al-Mondhiry | Council for Responsible Nutrition | FDA's draft guidance on new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications | industry |
2/7/2012 | Douglas MacKay | Council for Responsible Nutrition | FDA's draft guidance on new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications | industry |
2/7/2012 | Miriam Guggenheim | Covington & Burling | FDA's draft guidance on new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
2/7/2012 | Marica Howard | Consumer Healthcare Products Association | FDA's draft guidance on new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications | industry |
2/7/2012 | Jan Siroia | Consumer Healthcare Products Association | FDA's draft guidance on new dietary ingredient (NDI) notifications | industry |
2/7/2012 | Haley Stevens | Calorie Control Council | Proposed changes related to polyols and dietary fiber | industry |
2/7/2012 | Sue Potter | Tate & Lyle | Proposed changes related to polyols and dietary fiber | industry |
2/7/2012 | Allan Buck | Archer Daniel Midland Company | Proposed changes related to polyols and dietary fiber | industry |
2/7/2012 | Bruce Ray | Beneo Group | Proposed changes related to polyols and dietary fiber | industry |
2/7/2012 | Miriam Guggenheim | Covington & Burling | Proposed changes related to polyols and dietary fiber | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
2/7/2012 | Lyn Nabors | Calorie Control Council | Proposed changes related to polyols and dietary fiber | industry |
11/8/2012 | Marni Karlin | Organic Trade Association | arsenic in rice | industry |
11/8/2012 | Christine Bushway | Organic Trade Association | arsenic in rice | industry |
11/8/2012 | Jessica Lundberg | Lundberg Family Farms | arsenic in rice | industry |
11/8/2012 | Renee Thresher | Lundberg Family Farms | arsenic in rice | industry |
11/8/2012 | Clark Driftmier | California Natural Products | arsenic in rice | industry |
11/8/2012 | Reece Langley | USA Rice | arsenic in rice | industry |
11/8/2012 | Bruce Lymburn | Clif Bar & Company | arsenic in rice | industry |
10/17/2012 | Julie Smolyansky | Lifeway Foods | industry meeting on a standard of identity for kefir | industry |
10/17/2012 | Tim Hannegan | Hannegan Landau Poersch Advocacy LLC | industry meeting on a standard of identity for kefir | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
5/16/2012 | James North | Jimmy John's | Jimmy John's sprout outbreak | industry |
5/16/2012 | Jeff Wampler | Jimmy John's | Jimmy John's sprout outbreak | industry |
5/16/2012 | Mansour Samadpour | IEH Laboratory | Jimmy John's sprout outbreak | industry |
7/31/2012 | Loren Israelsen | United Natural Products Alliance | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | Tricia Knight | United Natural Products Alliance | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | Peter Reinecke | United Natural Products Alliance | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | David Spangler | Consumer Healthcare Products Association | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | Jay Sirois | Consumer Healthcare Products Association | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | Steve Mister | Council for Responsible Nutrition | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | Rend Al-Mondhiry | Council for Responsible Nutrition | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | Douglas MacKay | Council for Responsible Nutrition | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | Michael McGuffin | American Herbal Association | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | Tony Young | American Herbal Association | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | Scott Bass | Sidley & Austin | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
7/31/2012 | Cara Welch | Natural Products Association | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | John Shaw | Natural Products Association | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
7/31/2012 | Nandini Gopinadh | Alliance for Natural Health | FDA's draft guidance on New Dietary Ingredients (NDI) | industry |
2/8/2012 | Bonnie Liebman | Center for Science in the Public Interest | FDA's 2006 draft guidance on whole grains | consumer |
2/8/2012 | Anat Margalit | Center for Science in the Public Interest | FDA's 2006 draft guidance on whole grains | consumer |
2/8/2012 | Emily GIlbert | Center for Science in the Public Interest | FDA's 2006 draft guidance on whole grains | consumer |
2/8/2012 | Steve Gardner | Center for Science in the Public Interest | FDA's 2006 draft guidance on whole grains | consumer |
2/8/2012 | Erika Knudson | Center for Science in the Public Interest | FDA's 2006 draft guidance on whole grains | consumer |
1/24/2012 | Urvashi Rangan | Consumers Union | arsenic in apple juice | consumer |
1/24/2012 | Ami Gadhia | Consumers Union | arsenic in apple juice | consumer |
1/24/2012 | Jean Halloran | Consumers Union | arsenic in apple juice | consumer |
1/24/2012 | Tony Corbo | Food and Water Watch | arsenic in apple juice | consumer |
6/26/2012 | Joe Levitt | Hogan Lovells | National Chicken Council on egg hatchery issue | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
6/26/2012 | Brian Eyin | Hogan Lovells | National Chicken Council on egg hatchery issue | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
6/26/2012 | Ashley Peterson | National Chicken Council | National Chicken Council on egg hatchery issue | industry |
6/26/2012 | Mike Levengood | Perdue Farms | National Chicken Council on egg hatchery issue | industry |
6/26/2012 | Charlie Carpenter | Perdue Farms | National Chicken Council on egg hatchery issue | industry |
6/26/2012 | Chip Miller | Tyson Foods, Inc. | National Chicken Council on egg hatchery issue | industry |
12/21/2012 | Joe Levitt | Hogan Lovells | the term "natural" | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
12/21/2012 | Martin Hahn | Hogan Lovells | the term "natural" | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
12/21/2012 | Jim Skiles | Grocery Manufacturers Association | the term "natural" | industry |
12/21/2012 | Steve Armstrong | Campbell Soup Company | the term "natural" | industry |
11/30/2012 | Thomas P. Davis | Monster | meeting with Monster on energy drinks | industry |
11/30/2012 | Dr. Jeanni Perron | Covington & Burling | meeting with Monster on energy drinks | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
11/30/2012 | Miriam Guggenheim | Covington & Burling | meeting with Monster on energy drinks | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
11/30/2012 | Mingham Ji | Covington & Burling | meeting with Monster on energy drinks | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
11/30/2012 | Gerald Masoudi | Covington & Burling | meeting with Monster on energy drinks | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
6/27/2012 | Audrae Erickson | Corn Refiners Association | discuss the timing and grounds for the FDA denial of petition to use the term corn sugar to describe high fructose corn syrup | industry |
6/27/2012 | Clausen Ely | Covington & Burling | discuss the timing and grounds for the FDA denial of petition to use the term corn sugar to describe high fructose corn syrup | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
1/6/2012 | Leslie Turner | Coca Cola | carbendazim issue/Coca Cola | industry |
1/6/2012 | Raymond Steed | Coca Cola | carbendazim issue/Coca Cola | industry |
1/6/2012 | Henry Chin | Coca Cola | carbendazim issue/Coca Cola | industry |
1/6/2012 | John Packman | Coca Cola | carbendazim issue/Coca Cola | industry |
1/6/2012 | Susan Martin | Coca Cola | carbendazim issue/Coca Cola | industry |
1/6/2012 | Dan Schafer | Coca Cola | carbendazim issue/Coca Cola | industry |
1/6/2012 | James Horrisberger | Coca Cola | carbendazim issue/Coca Cola | industry |
1/6/2012 | Mark Mansour | Akin Gump | carbendazim issue/Coca Cola | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
1/6/2012 | Ricardo Carvajal | Hyman Phelps | carbendazim issue/Coca Cola | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
1/6/2012 | Fred Degnan | King and Spaulding | carbendazim issue/Coca Cola | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
12/8/2011 | Roderick Palmore | General Mills | nutrition labeling | industry |
11/30/2011 | Ladd Wiley | FDA Alliance | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | mixed |
11/30/2011 | Nancy Myers | FDA Alliance | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | mixed |
11/30/2011 | Ben Firschein | U.S. Pharmacopoeia | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | industry |
11/30/2011 | Colin Finan | Pew Charitable Trusts | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | consumer |
11/30/2011 | Tony Curry | Akin Gump | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
11/30/2011 | Lisa Weddig | National Fisheries Institute | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | industry |
11/30/2011 | Bob Hirst | International Bottled Water Association | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | industry |
11/30/2011 | Mike Greene | Council for Responsible Nutrition | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | industry |
11/30/2011 | Rasma Zvaners | American Bakers Association | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | industry |
11/30/2011 | Chris Waldrop | Consumer Federation of America | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | consumer |
11/30/2011 | David Plunkett | Center for Science in the Public Interest | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | consumer |
11/30/2011 | Steven Grossman | FDA Alliance | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | mixed |
11/30/2011 | Deborah White | Kraft Foods | Overview of CFSAN strategic priorities | industry |
3/4/2011 | David Acheson | Leavitt Partners | preventive controls | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
3/10/2011 | Stuart Pape | Patton Boggs | color additive approval process | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
3/10/2011 | Mel Drozen | Keller and Heckman | color additive approval process | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
3/10/2011 | Peter Hutt | Covington & Burling | color additive approval process | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
3/10/2011 | Miriam Guggenheim | Covington & Burling | color additive approval process | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
3/10/2011 | Sten Risk | Mars Incorporated | color additive approval process | industry |
3/10/2011 | Dorothy Lagg | Mars Incorporated | color additive approval process | industry |
8/5/2011 | Miriam Guggenheim | Covington & Burling | bottled water labeling | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
6/2/2011 | Clay Hough | International Dairy Foods Association | International Dairy Foods Association/flavored milk petition | industry |
6/2/2011 | Cary Frye | International Dairy Foods Association | International Dairy Foods Association/flavored milk petition | industry |
6/2/2011 | Michelle Matto | International Dairy Foods Association | International Dairy Foods Association/flavored milk petition | industry |
6/2/2011 | Beth Briczinski | National Milk Producers Federation | International Dairy Foods Association/flavored milk petition | industry |
6/2/2011 | Jamie Jonker | National Milk Producers Federation | International Dairy Foods Association/flavored milk petition | industry |
6/2/2011 | Mark Vogue | P. Radius Global Market Research | International Dairy Foods Association/flavored milk petition | industry |
6/2/2011 | Joe Levitt | Hogan Lovells | International Dairy Foods Association/flavored milk petition | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
6/2/2011 | Ryan Wilson | Hogan Lovells | International Dairy Foods Association/flavored milk petition | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
5/11/2011 | Michael Jacobson | Center for Science in the Public Interest | CSPI petition re: HCFS | consumer |
5/11/2011 | Julie Greenstein | Center for Science in the Public Interest | CSPI petition re: HCFS | consumer |
5/11/2011 | Rev. Douglas Greenaway | National WIC Association | CSPI petition re: HCFS | consumer |
5/11/2011 | Cecilia Richardson | National WIC Association | CSPI petition re: HCFS | consumer |
6/23/2011 | Cheryl Deem | American Spice Trade Association | American Spice Trade Association | industry |
6/23/2011 | John Hallagan | American Spice Trade Association | American Spice Trade Association | industry |
6/23/2011 | Kelly Poole | American Spice Trade Association | American Spice Trade Association | industry |
6/14/2011 | Hank Lambert | Underwriters Laboratories | Overview of Undewriters Laboratories | industry |
6/14/2011 | Lauren Hartman | Underwriters Laboratories | Overview of Undewriters Laboratories | industry |
6/14/2011 | Gary Coleman | Underwriters Laboratories | Overview of Undewriters Laboratories | industry |
6/14/2011 | Laura Snell | Underwriters Laboratories | Overview of Undewriters Laboratories | industry |
3/11/2011 | David Rosenthal | Corn Refiners Association | high fructose corn sugar–corn sugar co-lableing | industry |
3/11/2011 | Clausen Ely | Covington & Burling | high fructose corn sugar–corn sugar co-lableing | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
3/11/2011 | Audrae Erickson | Corn Refiners Association | high fructose corn sugar–corn sugar co-lableing | industry |
7/13/2011 | Pam Cureton | Center for Celiac Research | meeting to discuss gluten-free labeling on food products | mixed |
7/13/2011 | Andrea Levario | American Celiac Disease Alliance | meeting to discuss gluten-free labeling on food products | mixed |
7/13/2011 | Pam King | Center for Celiac Research | meeting to discuss gluten-free labeling on food products | mixed |
7/13/2011 | Joel Warady | Enjoy LIfe Foods | meeting to discuss gluten-free labeling on food products | industry |
7/13/2011 | Alessio Fasano | Center for Celiac Research | meeting to discuss gluten-free labeling on food products | mixed |
3/2/2011 | Edward Kuehnle | Catalina Marketing Corporation | tracking under the new FDA FSMA | industry |
3/2/2011 | Eric Williams | Catalina Marketing Corporation | tracking under the new FDA FSMA | industry |
3/2/2011 | Claire M. DeMatteis | Catalina Marketing Corporation | tracking under the new FDA FSMA | industry |
3/2/2011 | Richard Frank | Olsson Frank Weeda Ternan Bode Matz | tracking under the new FDA FSMA | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
3/2/2011 | Bob Hahn | Olsson Frank Weeda Ternan Bode Matz | tracking under the new FDA FSMA | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
8/23/2011 | Clayton L. Hough | International Dairy Foods Association | European Union residue audit of 2010 | industry |
8/23/2011 | Beth Briczinski | National Milk Producers Federation | European Union residue audit of 2,010 | industry |
8/23/2011 | Matt McKnight | US Dairy Export Council | European Union residue audit of 2,010 | industry |
8/23/2011 | Mitchell Bowling | US Dairy Export Council | European Union residue audit of 2,010 | industry |
8/23/2011 | Jamie Jonker | National Milk Producers Federation | European Union residue audit of 2,010 | industry |
8/23/2011 | John Miller | Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services–National Conference on Interstate Milk Shipments | European Union residue audit of 2,010 | government |
8/23/2011 | Bob Ehart | National Association of Dairy Regulatory Officials | European Union residue audit of 2,010 | government |
8/23/2011 | Cary Frye | International Dairy Foods Association | European Union residue audit of 2,010 | industry |
10/14/2011 | Tony Corbo | Food & Water Watch | arsenic in food products | consumer |
10/14/2011 | Ami Gadhia | Consumers Union | arsenic in food products | consumer |
10/14/2011 | Urvashi Rangan | Consumers Union | arsenic in food products | consumer |
10/14/2011 | Patty Lovers | Food & Water Watch | arsenic in food products | consumer |
10/14/2011 | Judy Braiman | Empire State Consumer Project | arsenic in food products | consumer |
10/14/2011 | Kathy Burns | Science Corp | arsenic in food products | consumer |
3/21/2011 | Robert J. Whitaker | Produce Marketing Association | PMA's Committee member meeting | industry |
3/21/2011 | Thomas O'Brien | Produce Marketing Association | PMA's Committee member meeting | industry |
1/26/2012 | Adao S.M. Torres | Citrus Br | application of Carbendazim LOQ to single strength juice | industry |
1/26/2012 | Mel Drozen | Keller and Heckman | application of Carbendazim LOQ to single strength juice | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
1/26/2012 | Christian Lohbauer | Citrus Br | application of Carbendazim LOQ to single strength juice | industry |
1/26/2012 | Bab Kalik | Kalik Lewin | application of Carbendazim LOQ to single strength juice | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
1/26/2012 | Joe Levitt | Hogan Lovells | application of Carbendazim LOQ to single strength juice | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
1/26/2012 | Carol Freysinger | Juice Products Association | application of Carbendazim LOQ to single strength juice | industry |
1/26/2012 | Kristen Gunter | Florida Citrus Processors | application of Carbendazim LOQ to single strength juice | industry |
1/26/2012 | Eve Pelonis | Keller and Heckman | application of Carbendazim LOQ to single strength juice | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
1/26/2012 | Rick Cristol | Juice Products Association | application of Carbendazim LOQ to single strength juice | industry |
1/26/2012 | Rick Silverman | Hogan Lovells | application of Carbendazim LOQ to single strength juice | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
1/26/2012 | Ricardo Carrajal | Hyman Phelps | application of Carbendazim LOQ to single strength juice | lobbying/ consulting /law firm |
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