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Jessica O'Connell

Jessica O'Connell

Jessica P. O'Connell is a partner at Covington & Burling and co-chairs the firm's global Food, Drug, and Device Practice Group.

Sep 8, 2026

15:41
Just generally speaking, what are the big issues that FDA is facing in the foods area? I want to do a deep dive into some of them I know you're going to mention, but what are the big areas that FDA needs to address?
15:58
Sure.
15:59
Well, I think, you know, we saw at the beginning of 2026 when FDA put out their priority deliverables for the human foods program, it was quite an ambitious list with a lot of very specific goals.
16:11
You know, I think we've seen them kind of work towards accomplishing a lot of those.
16:16
And I know we'll talk about those in more detail at a high level.
16:21
I think a couple of things come to mind for me.
16:23
One is I think the continuing evolution of the inspectorate and how that is overseen and how expertise is really could have utilized within the investigators that are inspecting food facilities.

10 MINS LATER

27:07
Any developments in this area?

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