FSIS Administrator Justin Ransom takes over amid changing budget strategies

FSIS Administrator Justin Ransom takes over amid changing budget strategies

After 10 years as the top boss at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), Al Almanza stepped down in 2017. In the eight years since then, an administrator of FSIS to lead the food safety agency’s 8,300 employees has been named four more times. The most recent person named to the position is Justin Ransom, Ph.D., who starts on July 14. While he began his career at the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service, he comes from the private sect…