Tamar Lasky’s career experience includes government work in food safety, an area with surprising overlaps with drug and vaccine safety. She worked at the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service from 1999 through 2002, and gained a unique understanding of the interrelationships among science, policy, and public health.
While at USDA, she, her colleagues, and a public health student, analyzed data regarding arsenic levels in meats and poultry. This led to a key publication documenting the higher levels of arsenic in chicken compared to other meats, and to greater caution in the use of arsenic containing antibiotics in chicken feed. Arsenic in chicken? See the article.
She has written the book on epidemiology and food safety – Epidemiologic Principles and Food Safety, published by Oxford University Press in 2007 – check it out!
