Posted December 5, 2013
Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, former USDA Under Secretary for
Food Safety, will joint Deloitte & Touche LLP consumer products practice as
a food safety senior advisor, according to a Farm Futures article available here.
Hagen will “advise Deloitte’s clients on food and
product safety challenges, prevention-based policies and regulatory
requirements. She will also work with the
firm’s strategy and communications.”
Hagen, who holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School,
officially announced her resignation from USDA on November 15. In her three years as USDA Under Secretary
for Food Safety, USDA adopted a new “zero-tolerance policy for additional
strains of E. coli in beef” and adopted new standards for Salmonella and
Campylobacter in poultry. She was also
instrumental in developing a new Public Health Information System to improve
consumer information on proper food handling and food safety.
At Deloitte, Hagen will advise clients on regulatory
requirements, food and product safety challenges, supply chain, trace back,
prevention-based policies, strategy, and communications, according to an
article by Food Safety News available here.
“Elisabeth will bring to Deloitte an impressive blend
of regulatory level oversight and hands-on experience, stemming from her role
as the highest ranking food safety official in the U.S.,” said Pat Conroy, vice
chairman of Deloitte in a statement.
For more information on food safety, please visit the National
Agricultural Law Center’s website here.
