The newly appointed chief veterinarian officer is a rear admiral in the USPHS Commissioned Corps and serves as FSIS’ chief public health veterinarian and deputy assistant administrator of the Office of Public Health Science.

Veterinarian Michelle Kromm, alongside HealthforAnimals’ Alex Rinkus, share more than 20 years of insights into managing the balance between animal and public health.

The purpose of the committee is to provide impartial scientific advice and recommendations to federal food safety agencies that assures the safety of foods.

In recent meetings with industry, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has been sharing how the agency will continue to use whole genome sequencing (WGS) to help meet its public health mission.

In the last few years, we have seen the public health community (and regulatory agencies) utilize a new microbial analytical method that will ultimately be a game changer — genome sequencing (GS).