Under Secretary for Food Safety

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The Under Secretary for Food Safety is a position within the United States Department of Agriculture responsible for oversight of the policies and programs of the Food Safety and Inspection Service. The Under Secretary chairs the U.S. Codex Steering Committee, which provides guidance to U.S. delegations to the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The Food Safety and Inspection Service is responsible for ensuring that the nation's supply of meat, egg, and poultry products is safe and correctly labled and packaged.

The incumbent Under Secretary is Richard Allen Raymond, who was appointed on July 18, 2005. The previous Under Secretaries was Catherine Woteki, who was sworn in during August 1997. The position was created as part of a October 1994 reorganization of the Department of Agriculture. The then-incumbent Food Safety and Inspection Service Administrator, Mike Taylor, became the acting Under Secretary from October 1994 to November 1996.

[edit] External links

• The biography of Richard Raymond at the Department of Agriculture
• Richard Allen Raymond's presidential nomination
• The Department of Agriculture's overview of the Food Safety and Inspection Service
• The website of the Food Safety and Inspection Service
• A newsletter from the United States Department of Agriculture