Capital Voices - Volume 10, Number 1, August 1998

Capital Voices
Official Newsletter of the Washington DC Section
Institute of Food Technologists

Volume 10 August 1998 Number 1

DCIFTs first meeting of the year will be a legislative update, which will include presentations from the outgoing and incoming IFT Congressional Fellows, Dr. Stephanie Smith and Dr. Mickey Parish, respectively. Additionally, we will hear from Donna Vogt, Analyst in Food Safety Policy, who is with the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress, Pat Souder, Projects Director/ Agriculture Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Kelly Johnston, Vice-President, Gov. Affairs & Communications, National Food Processors Association.

Welcome to the new program year of the D.C. IFT. Jim Heimbach and I are Go-Chairs of the Section this year, a decision made by the Executive Committee (ExCom) following the unexpected retirement of Steve Ziller, former Chair-Elect. Your ExCom has already met to decide a preliminary program which appears elsewhere in this issue. We have put together a variety of programs and invite your participation. Remember: It's never the same without YOU!

Bruce Stillings, President of IFT, is one of our own D.C. members. He's been busy making committee appointments, challenging committee chairs to develop key objectives that support IFT's Mission Statement, and speaking. The ExCom hopes Bruce will come and talk with us. Until we clinch that deal, you can sign up through the Smithsonian Institution Resident Associated Program to hear Bruce speak on Chocolate: Food of the Gods Past, Present, and Future.

Take special note of our October 22nd meeting on biotechnology. IFT Scientific Lecturer Mary Ellen Sanders will address us. Speakers such as Mary Ellen are funded by your dues dollars (national and local) to present at IFT meetings country-wide.

INSTITUTE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGISTS,
WASHINGTON, DC SECTION

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

Hogan and Hartson Litigation Center - Lower Lobby
555 13th Street, NW (Metro Center)

Speakers

Mickey Parish, 1998-1999 IFT Congressional Fellow
Stephanie Smith, 1997-1998 IFT Congressional Fellow Investigator, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
"The Safety of Imports - A Senate Investigation"-
Donna Vogt, Analyst in Food Safety Policy
Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
"Food Safety Issues in the 105th Congress"
Pat Souder, Projects Director/Agriculture Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL)
"Agricultural Legislation - The View on The Hill"
Kelly Johnston, Exec. Vice-President, Gov. Affairs & Communications, National Food Processors Association
"Industry's Perspective on Food Legislation"

WHERE?

Hogan & Hartson Litigation Center-Lower Lobby
555 13th Street, NW
(Metro: Metro Center)

WHEN?

September 10, 1998
Registration: 2:30-3:00 pm
Program: 3:00-5:00 pm

COST?

$10 Members and Non-Members

FAX or phone registration form by September 8 to Jim Heimbach, phone # 703-516-2362; fax # 703-516-2390. If you do not show up you will be billed.

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