2004-2005 Topic: Foods and Health

Food Safety, Protection, and Defense

What Best Serves the Public Good?
Who Determines Acceptable Risk?

This event was held on March 8, 2005.

Video

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Click below for videos of September 14, 2004 Roundtable

• Opening Remarks and Welcome - John Finnegan and Debra Olson
• Framing the Issues - Craig Hedberg
• Who Speaks for the Common Good? - Jeffrey Kahn
• What is Industry's Role - Katherine J. Swanson
• Who Speaks for Consumers? - Caroline Smith DeWaal
• Panel Response to Audience Questions - Moderated by Shaun Kennedy

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Guest Speakers

Caroline Smith DeWaal, JD, Director of Food Safety, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, DC

John Finnegan, PhD, Interim Dean, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Craig Hedberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Will Hueston, DVM, PhD, Director, Center for Animal Health and Food Safety and Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota

Harry Hull, MD, State Epidemiologist, Minnesota Department of Health

Debra Olson, MPH, RN, Associate Dean, Public Health Practice Education, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota

Jeffrey Kahn, PhD, MPH, Director, Center for Bioethics, Academic Health Center, University of Minnesota

Shaun Kennedy, BSE, Associate Director, Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, and Associate Director-Administration, National Center for Food Protection and Defense, University of Minnesota

Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Professor, School of Public Health, Associate Director, National Center for Food Protection and Defense, University of Minnesota

Katherine J. Swanson, PhD, Vice President Food Safety, Ecolab, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota