Article: David Acheson: Your stomach's best friend

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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