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Article: David Acheson: Your stomach's best friend
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- Sunday News Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- July 15, 2007
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By Rick Weiss The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - Climbing the ranks in public health can be a
frustrating business. Nobody knows your name when bird flu is under
control, when pets are not poisoned, when bacteria-laden burgers
aren't making kids sick. But a run of really bad crises can launch
your career. That is the modest explanation David Acheson offers for
his meteoric climb from an anonymous physician with a quiet passion
for microbes to his recent appointment as the Food and Drug
Administration's assistant commissioner for food protection - or, in
the media lingo that he abhors, "food-safety czar." Acheson credits
E. coli, salmonella and the host of other pathogens that skulk about
in ...
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Transcript: SAFETY OF FOOD SUPPLY:DAVID W.K. ACHESON
Congressional Testimony;
October 11, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... Statement of David W.K. Acheson Assistant Commissioner Food Protection Food and Drug ... Office of Regulatory Affairs Food and Drug Administration ... Committee, I am David W.K. Acheson, Assistant Commissioner for Food Protection at the U.S ...
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