Food Quality & Safety

Ted Agres

Ted Agres, an award-winning writer, covered food safety regulatory and legislative issues in the Washington Report column for FQ&S. He had more than 40 years of experience reporting on issues such as health policy, medical technology, and pharmaceutical development, and held an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago. Ted passed away in April 2020.

Articles by Ted Agres

Whole Genome Sequencing

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This emerging technology has potential to revolutionize food tracking, but some worry that using it as a monitoring and enforcement tool will expose companies to unnecessary risk

Food Security

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Guarding the production and distribution chains from serious public health and economic consequences

FDA Inspections in 2014

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Identifying how ‘data quality challenges,’ high-risk facilities, and budgets factor into the future of FDA’s inspection capability

Systems Recognition Assessment

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If a foreign country is able to achieve a ‘comparable’ food safety system, it can cut through the regulatory red tape and make it easier for its food producers to export to the U.S.

Food Defense and Protection

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Specialists in government, industry, and academia are exploring ways to protect the nation’s food supply against intentional contamination and adulteration from sabotage, terrorism, economic fraud, and other illegal action

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