WASHINGTON (WKOW) — U.S. Senator Herb Kohl will meet the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner in Madison on Tuesday to discuss science, food safety, and public health.
Senator Kohl and Commissioner Margaret Hamburg will start off their meeting with a tour of the Babcock Hall Dairy Plant.
Senator Kohl is the chairman of the Senate’s Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, a group that oversees funding for the nation’s two main agencies responsible for keeping the food supply safe – the FDA and the Food Safety and Inspection Service.