Food and Nutrition Policy: Food, Nutrition, Germs, and Health: The 2001 Hazel K. Stiebeling Lecture.
Safe food is a prerequisite for good nutrition and health. This idea has driven scientific investigations and public policies that, in turn, led to major improvements in health and longevity. Changes in food production and consumption practices, population demographics, and health status and understanding the long-term health consequences of food-borne illnesses will impel future policy reforms.
Woteki
Catherine E.
CE
University of Maryland, College Park, Md, and University of Nebraska, Lincoln.; Dr Catherine Woteki was the first Under Secretary for Food Safety, serving in that capacity in the US Department of Agriculture from 1997 to 2001. Trained in human nutrition and epidemiology, Dr Woteki has broad interests in food, nutrition, and public health policy. Currently, she is the newly appointed Dean of The Iowa State University College of Agriculture. When the Stiebeling lecture was delivered, she held appointments at the University of Maryland and the University of Nebraska.