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US Secretary of Agriculture addresses 10th Anniversary Event Print
Click here for a transcript of remarks made by US Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the US Partnership for Food Safety Education. 

US Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Johanns, congratulates the Partnership on its efforts to engage the nation's retailers in the Be Food Safe in-store campaign.

 Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns

 Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, Andrew von Eschenbach addressed the Partnership anniversary celebration September 18 in Washington:  "We look at food safety from a process of prevention, intervention through to response.  One of the most important groups in that process is, in fact, consumers."

FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

fightbac.org, the website of the Partnership for Food Safety Education (PFSE), is your resource for Fight BAC! food safety and safe food handling campaign information.

The Partnership for Food Safety Education unites representatives from industry associations, professional societies in food science, nutrition and health consumer groups, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration in an important initiative to educate the public about safe food handling practices needed to keep food safe from bacteria and prevent foodborne illness.

   

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