Thursday, April
11th 2002
MAIN SESSION
11 am - 12:30 pm
Main Auditorium
Join the moderator
and panel members in a discussion that will address the safety of
our food supply.
MODERATOR:
Mark Sagoff
Senior Research Scholar, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy,
University of Maryland; Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment;
Former President of the International Society for Environmental
Ethics; published widely in journals of philosophy, law, economics,
ethics, and public policy.
PANELISTS:
Robert Buchanan
Senior Science Advisor, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition,
FDA; member, National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria
for Food; former lead scientist, President's Food Safety Initiative
in the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
Molly
Niedbalski Cline
Director, Food Industry Relations, Monsanto; co-chair, Council for
Biotechnology Information's food industry outreach team; member
and officer of numerous scientific and trade organizations, including
the Biotechnology Committee of the International Food Information
Council.
Gary Comstock
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Iowa State University;
coordinator, Bioethics Program, and founder, ISU Bioethics Institute;
author of Vexing Nature? On the Ethical Case Against Agricultural
Biotechnology and other works on genetically modified foods and
ethics in the life sciences.
Gregory
Jaffe
Co-Director, Project on Biotechnology, Center for Science in the
Public Interest; former Senior Counsel, Air Enforcement Division,
US EPA; member, Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology's Stakeholders
Forum and the GMO Consumer Values Panel, University of Pennsylvania
Bioethics Center.
Arthur
Liang
Director, Food Safety Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
with lead responsibility for developing strategies and policies
for foodborne disease prevention; Member, Executive Committee, National
Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods; CDC advisor
to the Board of Directors of the Association of Food and Drug Officials.
Steven
Yearley
Department of Sociology, York University, UK; Senior Research Associate,
Stockholm Environment Institute; recent works focus on issues of
public participation in environmental modeling and public understanding
of scientific controversies, including genetically modified organisms
and food.
PANEL
AND AUDIENCE QUESTION & ANSWER SESSION
1:30 - 2:00 pm
Main Auditorium
Continue the
conservation with the panelists and other audience members
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