Speaker Biographies
Laura Fox
Senior Public Affairs Specialist
Food Safety Staff
Food And Drug Administration
Center For Food Safety And Applied
Nutrition
Laura Fox develops education
programs for the FDA’s Center for Food
Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food
Safety Staff. Since joining the staff
in August 1998, she has developed
programs for producers, consumers and
the media. Consumer education
campaigns target the general
population, those who are at-risk for
developing foodborne illness, as well
as product-specific initiatives.
Ms. Fox is the project manager on
two new school-based initiatives
developed in partnership with the
National Science Teachers Association.
The first is the development of an
Emmy-award winning middle and high
school supplementary food science
curriculum, Science and Our Food
Supply. The second is the creation
of a weeklong professional development
program in food science program for
middle and high school science
teachers. To date, 150 science
teachers from across the U.S.
(including Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico
and the U.S. Virgin Islands) have come
to Washington, DC to learn about food
science and food safety.
Ms. Fox is an FDA representative to
the Partnership for Food Safety
Education, a national organization
dedicated to educating consumers about
the importance of food safety. Ms. Fox
helped develop the Partnership's two
school-based education programs—one
for children in grades K-3 and the
other aimed at those in grades 4-6.
Prior to joining FDA, Ms. Fox held
several managerial positions at the
U.S. Department of Agriculture where
she developed and managed the first
food safety consumer hotline—the Meat
and Poultry Hotline; initiated a media
outreach program; and oversaw the
development of many consumer and
school-based education programs.
Ms. Fox has received many honor
awards from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture and the Food and Drug
Administration for outstanding
consumer education programs.
Ms. Fox has a B.S. degree in
Journalism from the University of
Florida, Gainesville.
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