Agenda

8:30 – 9:00am: Registration

9:00 – 9:05am: Welcome remarks

9:05 – 9:50am: Keynote

• Peter Barton Hutt, Harvard Law School/Covington & Burling – The Food Safety Modernization Act in Historical Perspective

9:50 – 10:40am: Panel 1 – FSMA and Risk Regulation Strategy

• Jacob E. Gersen, Food Law Lab, Harvard Law School – Political Economy & Political Psychology in Food Safety
• Michael Roberts, Resnick Food Law and Policy Program, UCLA School of Law – The Regulation of Food Fraud Under FSMA: A Triggering of Obligations
• Moderator – I. Glenn Cohen, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School

10:40 – 11:00am: Break

11:00am – 12:15pm: Panel 2 – Regulating Farm Production: From Zero to Sixty

• Denis Stearns, Seattle University School of Law – Turning a Black Swan White: Questioning the Need for Regulation of Non-Industrial Agriculture
• Alli Condra, Food Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School – FSMA and Farm Consolidation
• Margot Pollans, Resnick Food Law and Policy Program, UCLA School of Law – FSMA and Sustainability
• Moderator – Robert Greenwald, Center for Health Law Policy and Innovation, Harvard Law School

12:15 – 1:30pm: Lunch Break

1:30 – 2:45: Panel 3 – Benefits, Challenges, and Gaps in FSMA’s Approach

• Lewis Grossman, Washington College of Law, American University – New Governance, New Challenges
• Kuei-Jung Ni, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School/Institute for Technology Law, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan – FDA and Uncertain Health Risks: Regulating Veterinary Drugs in Feeding Food Animals
• Stephanie Tai, University of Wisconsin School of Law – Whole Foods: The FSMA and the Challenges of Defragmenting Food Safety Regulation
• Moderator – Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

2:45 – 3:00: Break

3:00 – 4:15: Panel 4 – International Issues and Trade Implications

• Sharon Mayl, Senior Advisor for Policy, FDA Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine – Title TBA
• Ching-Fu Lin, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School – The Role of Private Standards in the FSMA
• Marsha Echols, Howard University School of Law – Mandatory and Voluntary Programs for Importers
• Moderator – Joel Trachtman, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

4:15 – 4:30: Concluding remarks

• Jacob E. Gersen, Food Law Lab, Harvard Law School

Recording

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Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center; the Food Law and Policy Clinic (a division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation); the Food Law Lab; and the Harvard Food Law Society; with support from the Top University Strategic Alliance and the Dean’s Office at Harvard Law School.