Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
Richard G. Lugar, Chairman

Hearing to Examine Food Safety Issues

Wednesday, October 8, 1997

Opening Statement of Chairman Richard Lugar
United States Senator for Indiana

Opening Statement of Ranking Democratic Member Tom Harkin (D-IA)

PANEL I

The Honorable Dan Glickman
Secretary
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, D.C.

PANEL II

Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H.
State Epidemiologist and Chief Acute Disease Epidemiology Section
Minnesota Department of Health
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Carol Tucker Foreman
Coordinator, Safe Food Coalition
Washington, D.C.

Representing the American Meat Institute, Grocery Manufacturers of America, National Broiler Council, National Food Processors Association and National Turkey Federation:

Gary Kushner
Partner
Hogan and Hartson
Washington, D.C.

Michael Doyle, Ph.D.
Director
Center for Food Safety and Quality Enhancement
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

Nancy Donley
Safe Tables Our Priority
Brooklyn, New York

Alan Janzen
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
Henderson, Nebraska