Justin Ransom To Head USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service (FSIS)
Justin Ransom was named administrator of USDA’S Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), among a handful of appointments made July 3 by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
He has more than two decades of strategic leadership responsibilities in food safety, quality systems, animal welfare and sustainability, the agency said, including at Tyson Foods, McDonald’s and OSI Group. Dr. Ransom began his career at the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, where he played a key role in developing technical standards for the National School Lunch Program, instrument grading systems and trade facilitation.
Other appointments made July 3 were Michelle Bekkering as Deputy Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs; Peter Laudeman as Senior Policy Advisor for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs; Jacqueline Thomas as Director of External Communications for Farm Production and Conservation Mission Area; and John Greene as Chief Operating Officer for the Rural Development Business Center.
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Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.