Elisabeth Hagen

Cross posted from Food Safety News: My passion for public health stems from my career as an infectious disease doctor, watching families cope with the heartbreak caused by preventable diseases, including foodborne illness. I know what it feels like to explain to a husband in shock that the reason...

Last week, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service posted on the agency’s web site copies of recent letters that were sent to plants facing enforcement actions for inhumanely treating animals. Posting these humane handling enforcement letters on the web enhances the transparency component of this...

March is National Nutrition Month, and the Food Safety and Inspection Service is improving the way consumers receive nutritional information about the meat and poultry products they most frequently purchase. Beginning today, ground or chopped meat and poultry products, such as ground turkey and...

Serie especial para los días festivos- 3er blog de 5 ¿Ya comenzó a planear su menú para el día festivo? La Dra. Hagen del Servicio de Inocuidad e Inspección de Alimentos del USDA y yo queremos ayudarle. Esta semana le proveemos recetas de bajo costo con consejos simples para un manejo adecuado de...

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is making significant changes this year to strengthen humane handling enforcement-making it a more objective, and less subjective, measure. As a public health agency, FSIS is responsible for ensuring that America’s supply of meat and poultry...

Secretary Tom Vilsack’s sunny office overlooking the National Mall set the perfect background this morning for Elisabeth Hagen’s first moments as USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety. While her husband, Dr. Daniel Gabbay, proudly held the Bible on which she was sworn in, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen was...