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achived URL: http://www.c-span.org/Watch/watch.aspx?MediaI...

event website URL: http://agriculture.senate.gov/

start date and time: Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 10:00 AM

end date and time: Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 12:45 PM

categories:   health & wellness

event description:

video webcast -

The US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry holds a hearing entitled "Examination of Federal Food Safety Oversight in the Wake of Peanut Products Recall."

Witnesses include:

Panel 1 -

Dr. Stephen Sundlof - Director, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Rear Admiral Ali S. Khan - Assistant Surgeon General and Deputy Director of the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne, and Enteric Diseases, Center for Disease Control

Panel 2 -

Gabrielle Meunier - mother of affected child

Caroline Smith DeWaal - Director, Program on Food Safety, Center for Science in the Public Interest

William Hubbard - Former Senior Associate Commissioner for Policy, Planning and Legislation, Food and Drug Administration

sponsor's website: http://agriculture.senate.gov/