Outbreak Experience

Outbreak Experience

Outbreak prevention is critical at every step in the food production chain. During an outbreak, immediate action is needed. My first-hand experience in prevention and response to outbreaks can guide you in the right direction.

On-Farm

On-Farm

Is your farm prepared to be in compliance with the Produce Safety Rule? We can direct you to resources that can provide you a Produce Safety Rule On-Farm Readiness Review (OFRR), at no cost to you.

Processing

Processing

Achieving compliance with the FDA Preventive Controls Rule can be complicated. Ensuring a focus on hazards known or reasonably foreseeable and preventive actions/preventive controls is the key to food safety and compliance.

Retail Food Service

Retail Food Service

Retail and Food Services are at the front lines of food safety vulnerabilities. From the farm, through processing and handling, and ultimately delivery of foods/ingredients, the results of prevention efforts at each step can be additive. An analysis of your farm-to-table risk is important.

Protecting Your Brand

Protecting Your Brand

Prevention failures can put your brand at serious risk. Protecting your brand requires a focus on prevention and response efforts; including recall plans and communication strategies with regulatory agencies and the media.

Litigation Support

Litigation Support

If you are a plaintiff, defendant, or an attorney considering litigation; it is important that an expert is available to assist you in identifying the facts of the matter, the science, and government regulations to support decision-making.

areas of expertise

Experience

Scientific knowledge and experience-based skills relating to complex and critical food production, food safety issues, and related environmental antecedents/root causes.

Analysis

In-depth knowledge and experience supporting my ability to analyze and manage complex issues and challenges, and to develop prevention-oriented solutions.

Solutions

Experience supporting an understanding of how to build and maintain coalitions, find the “win-win” scenarios, and develop sustainable, focused, and high performing organizational cultures within industry sectors and food supply chains.

Representation

An ability to effectively develop, and reliably communicate, highly technical and often emotionally charged information to diverse audiences. This includes experience testifying before Congress and serving as an industry spokesperson through all forms of communication media.

Expert advice.when you need it the most.

About Gary Weber, Ph.D.

Dr. Weber has over 30 years experience working on food safety and agricultural issues issues for the USDA, FDA, private sector, and trade associations. He has extensive media experience, and has testified, under oath, numerous times before Congress. He serves as a consultant, and expert witness. He most recently served over four years as Prevention Manager for the FDA Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network (CORE), where he dealt with over 100 significant food-borne illness outbreaks. Dr. Weber has experience regarding how to determine the potential root causes of outbreaks, and how the food service sector is impacted by outbreak events. He understands how the media and relationships with Federal and State regulatory agencies impact the food service sector.

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