Politics of Food Safety/Consumer Responsibility
 David Lineback - Director, JIFSAN, Joint Institute of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, University of Maryland
Expertise: Consumer advocate groups/non-governmental organizations/watchdog groups - their role and effectiveness; scientific evidence and non-scientific views and their involvement in food safety issues; domestic and international policy on issues such as acrylamide in food, impacts of 9-11 on food safety and food security; agricultural and food biotechnology; microbiological food safety and foodborne disease; sugars/carbohydrates in diet/nutrition
Credentials: Chairman, 12th World Congress of Food Science and Technology (July, 2003) Organizing Committee; Scientific Council Chair of International Union of Food Science & Technology; past president, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST); former dean of the College of Agriculture, University of Idaho
Contact: (w) (301) 405-8382; (h) (301) 946-7203; lineback@deans.umd.edu
Website: www.jifsan.umd.edu
One-on-one Meeting
 Mark Kantor - Associate professor and extension specialist, nutrition and food science, University of Maryland
Expertise: Attitudes and behaviors about food; consumer responsibility; functional foods -- "What happens with exposure of consumers to overly fortified foods?" Assessing perceptions of nutrition and food safety risks; attitudes and behaviors about food; developing health communication messages
Credentials: Food Science Communicators Chair Award, Institute of Food Technologists, 1999
Contact: (301) 405-1018; mk4@umail.umd.edu
Website: www.agnr.umd.edu/users/nfsc/kantor.htm
 Robert Sprinkle M.D. - Assistant professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland
Expertise: Food choices, and food marketing and the health-policy problems implied thereby; biosabotage of food supply; environment; bioethics; human health effects of food production and sterilization methods; food biotechnologies; environmental effects of production methods in field agriculture, animal husbandry, and industrial fishing; the microbial environment as an arbiter of human, animal, and plant health and a site of collateral damage in the food and fiber industries; prospect of the biosabotage of agriculture by individuals, groups, hostile states, or unscrupulously competing corporations; impediments to public-policy innovation
Credentials: Editor-in-Chief, Politics and the Life Sciences
Contact: (w) (301) 405-0184; (h) (301) 864-2170; rs236@umail.umd.edu
Website: www.politicsandthelifesciences.org
One-on-one Meeting
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