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A Happy Hour podinar* about food safety & quality

Join Rick Biros, Content Director and Founder of Food Safety Tech in a happy hour conversation about food safety & quality.

*A conversation like a podcast but using a webinar platform

No slides or PowerPoint. Just talk.

Q&A to follow the discussion.

Adult beverage is optional but encouraged!

Episode 1: A Conversation with Dr. David Acheson, President & CEO, TAG...The Acheson Group

Broadcast: Thursday, August 22 at 5 o'clock EST

In 2012, David was an early advisor to Rick in the launch of FoodSafetyTech.com and the Food Safety Consortium conference. Back then, many things were new and evolving including the proposed Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Rick and David will look back at FSMA, how it has evolved and discuss the future FSQA risks and challenges.

Dr. David Acheson has more than 40 years of medical and food safety experience, having practiced medicine for several years and serving in prominent roles with both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service prior to forming TAG in 2013.  David graduated from the University of London Medical School and practiced internal medicine and infectious diseases in the United Kingdom until 1987 when he moved to the New England Medical Center and became an Associate Professor at Tufts University in Boston, studying the molecular pathogenesis of foodborne pathogens.

At the USDA, David served as the Chief Medical Officer of the Food Safety and Inspection Service. He then joined the FDA as the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) Chief Medical Officer; from which he moved to Director of CFSAN’s Office of Food Defense, Communication and Emergency Response; and was then appointed as the Assistant and then Associate Commissioner for Foods. In this role, David held agency-wide leadership for all food and feed issues, and he developed the 2007 Food Protection Plan, which served as the basis for many of the authorities granted to FDA by the Food Safety Modernization Act.

Since founding TAG, David has used his regulatory insight, food safety knowledge, and expertise in crisis response to advise food industry clients around the globe on how to best manage risk in a global supply chain and evolving regulatory landscape. 

Register now and plan to join us in the live broadcast, Thursday, August 22 at 5 o'clock EST. Don't forget your beverage!

Can't make the live broadcast? Register and we'll send you the recording to watch & listen On Demand.