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 Dr. David Acheson, Managing Director for Food and Import Safety, Leavitt Partners LLC will kick off I.E.Canada's 5th Annual Food Forum.
Dr. David Acheson, Managing Director for Food and Import Safety, Leavitt Partners LLC and former Associate Commissioner for Foods for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Chief Medical Officer at the U.S. FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) will open I.E.Canada’s 5th Annual Food Forum, Embracing Diversity: Business Opportunity and Global Compliance. Dr. Acheson is a key player in the U.S. food world and the international community, and has tremendous insights to offer to forum participants. In 2010, the U.S. government will have a new food safety bill in place. Currently, there are two bills under review. The Food Safety Modernization Act is presently before the U.S. Senate for consideration, and the U.S. Food Safety Bill was passed by the House of Representatives. It is expected that the Senate bill will be passed in early 2010, and that the bill will affect almost all food and food products being imported into the U.S. A comparison document showing the differences between the two bills has been prepared by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Of the two bills, one has been passed by the House of Representatives and the other by a committee of the senate called the Education, Labour and Pensions Committee. The Senate committee bill is now under consideration by the entire Senate. When that is passed, likely early in 2010, the next step is for the House Bill and Senate Bill to be combined into one bill, which is anticipated to be passed and come into law in 2010. Dr. Acheson has extensive knowledge of the bill and its impacts. He will provide participants with a clear outline of what the legislation means, and the timing and process for passing the new bill. The session will also identify how the new legislation will impact food safety compliance requirements as well as the movement of goods from Canada into the U.S. Dr. Acheson became the Chief Medical Officer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) in 2002. Following several other positions at FDA, he was appointed as Associate Commissioner for Foods, which gave him an agency-wide leadership role for all food and feed issues, including health promotion and nutrition. Upon leaving his role in government, in 2009 Dr. Acheson took up a new position as the Managing Director for Food and Import Safety at Leavitt Partners LLC, a consulting firm with offices in Salt Lake City and Washington DC. Dr. Acheson is a graduate of the University of London Medical School. Following his training in internal medicine and infectious diseases in the United Kingdom, Dr. Acheson moved to the New England Medical Center and Tufts University in Boston where he undertook basic molecular pathogenesis research on foodborne pathogens. He has published extensively and is internationally recognized both for his public health expertise in food safety and his research in infectious diseases. He is a much sought after speaker and I.E.Canada is honoured to have Dr. Acheson as the lead at this year’s Food Forum.
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