Transcript Vermont Food Safety Task Force

Vermont Food Safety Task Force participants
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Legislative:
• Tom Berry- US Senator Leahy’s office
• Jenny Nelson- US Senator Sander’s office
• Terry Macaig- VT State Representative
Food
Production
• Gabrielle Meunier- STOP Foodborne
Illness- consumer group
• Bradley Tompkins, Erica Berl- VDHfood borne disease outbreak
investigation
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Steve Justis- VT Tree Fruit Growers Association
Karl Ross- VT Sheep and Goat Association
Andrea Stander- Rural Vermont
Patty Duffy- VT Agriculture Credit Corporation/ VEDA
Ginger Nickerson, Hans Estrin, Vern Grubinger- UVM
Extension- produce safety
Diane Bothfeld- VAAFM- Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
Kristin Haas- VAAFM- State Veterinarian, Food Safety and
Consumer Protection Division Director
Cary Giguere- VAAFM- Pesticide Program Section Chief
Jim Leland- VAAFM- Laboratory Director
Abbey Willard- VAAFM- Local Foods Administrator
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Consumers
Processing
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Real Pothier- Fletcher Allen Health Care- food
service
Rosemary Fifield- Hanover Co-op
Lindsay Lord- VT Chamber of Commerce
Valarie Devlin, Barb Cote, Becky Temple- VDH
lab- food testing and disease investigation
Elisabeth Wirsing, Al Burns, Sara Jelen, Lillian
Colasurdo- VDH Food and Lodging Programinspection of retail and processing
Al Pistorio- US FDA, Retail Food Specialist
Retailers/
Restaurants/
Food Service
Distribution
Note: Those listed have participated in at least 1 task force
meeting. An additional 41 people attended the Summit (March
2012) but not a task force meeting.
George Keener, Connor Gorham- VT Food
Ventures Center
David Kedzierski- Agrimark/ Cabot Creamery
Jonathan Rutstein- Bread and Chocolate, Inc.
Peter Dixon- Westminster Artisan Cheese, Inc.
Rachel Schaal and Jeremy Stephenson- VT
Cheese Council
Rod Lamothe- Endyne, Inc- lab testing
Curtt Perry- FSQ Consulting
Kathy McNamara- VAAFM, meat inspection
Priscilla Neves- US FDA Office of Partnerships
Londa Nwadike- UVM Extension- food safety
• Sean Buchanan- Black River Produce, Inc.
VDH= Vermont Department of Health
VAAFM= Vermont Agency of
Agriculture, Food and Markets
UVM= University of Vermont