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Prof. Michael "Mike" R. Taylor Esq.


Self Description

August 2007: "Michael R. Taylor is Senior Fellow and Director of RFF’s Center for Risk Management At RFF, Taylor is developing a research program on the policy and institutional issues affecting the success of the global food system in the area of hunger and food security in developing countries, food safety, the natural resource and environmental sustainability of agriculture. Prior to RFF, Taylor served in government, practiced law in Washington, and worked in private industry. He was Administrator of the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service from 1994 to 1996; Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the Food and Drug Administration from 1991 to 1994; and an FDA staff lawyer and Executive Assistant to the FDA Commissioner from 1976 to 1981. He practiced food and drug law and was a partner in the law firm of King & Spalding for ten years and most recently was Vice President for Public Policy at Monsanto Company. Taylor has served on several NAS committees and is currently the co-chair Taylor is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and a member of the Board of Trustees of Resolve. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia and his B.A. in political science at Davidson College."

http://www.rff.org/fsrc/bios.htm

Third-Party Descriptions

July 2008: '“The purpose of the recordkeeping provision of the Bioterrorism Act was to support going back to the origin of food after people have gotten sick when you are trying to find out how the biological agent got there,” said Michael Taylor, a professor at the George Washington University and a former F.D.A. official. “But the provisions are of little or no value with respect to trace-backs of fresh produce because of the amount of shoe leather and time it would take.”'

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/health/policy/10tomato.html

August 2007: '"There is something in between FDA and USDA that is really the right answer," said Mike Taylor, a former administrator for the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service and a research professor of public health at George Washington University. "We have to make it a system that enforces private industry's responsibility to manage supply chain."'

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/03/AR2007080301830.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Student/Trainee (past or present) Davidson College Organization Aug 12, 2007
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Organization Aug 12, 2007
Organization Executive (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Organization Aug 12, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) George Washington University, The (GW) Organization Aug 12, 2007
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Georgetown University Organization Aug 12, 2007
Organization Executive (past or present) Monsanto Company Organization Aug 12, 2007
Organization Executive (past or present) Resources for the Future (RFF) Organization Aug 12, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) University of Virginia (UVA) Organization Aug 12, 2007

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Aug 04, 2007 Two Very Different Paths From Farm to Table: Bifurcated Safety System Means Some Foods Get Less Scrutiny

QUOTE: the Government Accountability Office called federal oversight of the food safety system "fragmented" and put it on a list of "high-risk" programs.

 Washington Post