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Catherine E. Woteki, Nominee for Under Secretary for Agriculture for Research, Education and Economics, Department of Agriculture
Dr. Catherine E. Woteki currently serves as Global Director of Scientific Affairs for Mars, Incorporated, where she manages the company’s scientific policy and research on matters of health, nutrition, and food safety. From 2002-2005, she was Dean of Agriculture and Professor of Human Nutrition at Iowa State University. Dr. Woteki served as the first Under Secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1997-2001, where she oversaw U.S. Government food safety policy development and USDA’s continuity of operations planning. Dr. Woteki also served as the Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics at USDA in 1996. Prior to going to USDA, Dr. Woteki served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as Deputy Associate Director for Science from 1994-1996. Dr. Woteki has also held positions in the National Center for Health Statistics of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1983-1990), the Human Nutrition Information Service at USDA (1981-1983), and as Director of the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine at the National Academy of Sciences (1990-1993). In 1999, Dr. Woteki was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, where she has chaired the Food and Nutrition Board (2003-2005). She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Human Nutrition from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1974). Dr. Woteki received her B.S. in Chemistry from Mary Washington College (1969).

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-more-key...


SUGAR BEETS WITH GREAT BIOTECHNOLOGY
ADVANCES

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BASF
HEADLINE PRODUCTS TESTED AT IOWA STATE UNVERSITY

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASF


Genetically modified organisms
Anti-biotechnology protest groups have criticized BASF's plans to hold trials of GMO potatoes in the UK.[12] A subsidiary of Basf which focuses on GMOs is BASF Plant Science which produces the Amflora GM potato.


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Mars Incorporated.

Publication: Food & Drink Weekly
Publication Date: 11-JUL-05 Format: Online
Full Article Title: Mars Incorporated.(appointment of Catherine Woteki as director)(Brief Article)
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Mars Incorporated has hired Catherine Woteki, dean of the College of Agriculture at Iowa State University since January 2002, and formerly Under Secretary of Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, as global director of scientific affairs. Woteki is a nutritional epidemiologist, and prior to becoming Dean, she served as a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park, and professor of nutrition and food safety at the University of Nebraska. From 1997 to 2001, she was first under secretary for food safety in the USDA.


http://www.nationalacademies.org/asadi/speakers/woteki.html




Prof. Catherine Woteki
Former Under Secretary of Food Safety, USDA; Former Acting Under Secretary, Research Education, and Economics, USDA; Global Director of Scientific Affairs Mars, Inc.
Catherine Ellen O'Connor Woteki was born in Buenos Aires and has worked in nutrition and food safety for years. She has had a long and prestigious career. From 1997 to 2001 she was the Under Secretary of Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Next, she became the dean and director of the College of Agriculture at the Iowa State University. Currently, she is the Global Director of Scientific Affairs at Mars, Inc.


http://www.mars.com/global/global-brands.aspx


http://www.cast-science.org/websiteUploads/pdfs/2005AnnualReportFINAL.pdf

Mars Inc owns Seeds of Change Heirloom seeds

Seeds of change owned by Mars Inc.
http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/chicago-garden/2009/12/boycotting-monsanto-se...


ABOUT HOWARD YANA SHAPIRO
A co-founder of Seeds of Change
and ally...

Nancy Shapiro...I would get Seeds of Change from her...
http://www.nancyshapiro.com/about.html



http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/may/07/howardyana-shapiro-seeds-chang...





 

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