GFSF Announcement: USDA Economists Group Seminar on Food Safety Costs and Global Consequences

Join USDA on the 25^th of August as they host Dr. Gilmore and Dr. Minor for a presentation on how food safety issues are viewed from a global, macro perspective and what the quantitative methods for evaluating cost implications are.

 Under the FSMA scope and the supply chain, what links the costs of food safety threats to non-compliance issues in the US? What is the changing structure of the global food and feed market place and what could it mean for food safety overall?

Regarding quantitative methods, the FDA has developed an economic welfare-based method to estimate the health costs associated with foodborne illness. The method generates pathogen-specific health costs measured in both quality-adjusted life years and in dollars.

Dr. Richard Gilmore is CEO/President of the GIC Group, an international agribusiness company, and founder and chairman of the non-profit industry organization, Global Food Safety Forum (www.globalfoodsafetyforum.org).  He previously served as External Adviser to the US Government for investment in innovative ag technologies in feed the future countries; Chief Economist of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Director of Food Policy, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Rockefeller Fellow.  Rick has written books and articles on agribusiness and food policy issues and is a frequent media commentator on food safety and policy issues

Dr. Travis Minor is an Economist with the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.  He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Economics with an emphasis in Health Economics from Middle Tennessee State University. Aside from contributing to numerous Regulatory Impact Analyses put forth by the FDA, Dr. Minor has published research in Health Economics and Economics and Human Biology, amongst others.

 August 25, 2014, Monday

12:00 to 1:00 pm

1400 Independence Ave SW, Room 107A                    
Washington, DC.

Please RSVP by Wednesday, August 20, 2014.

For questions, please contact

Sherry Wise, sherry.wise@ams.usda.gov or Marina Denicoff, marina.denicoff@ams.usda.gov