The last time Mindy Brashears waited almost 700 days to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate as USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety, and be just in time for the nation’s pandemic crisis. Nominated for the second time by the President Trump on June 2 to be the nation’s top food safety official, the slow-moving Senate Committee on Agriculture has not yet scheduled a hearing for Brashears.
But there is again something waiting for the Texas Tech University professor of food safety. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, at the opening of a new food safety laboratory near the St.Louis airport, said USDA is “charging ahead to reduce salmonella illnesses.” Read more