CFA joined a coalition of consumer, industry and public health stakeholder groups in a letter urging Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to revisit her decision to disband USDA’s National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF) and National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI). The NACMCF, established by the Reagan Administration in 1988, provides impartial, scientific advice and recommendations to USDA on microbiological and public health issues relative to the safety of the U.S. food supply while NACMPI, established by the Nixon Administration in 1971, advises on matters affecting federal and state inspection program activities. USDA spends relatively little to run the volunteer committees, which have included CFA representatives as well as a broad range of other stakeholders from industry, academia, and public health. As the letter explains, the committees have played an important role in strengthening food inspection and advance principles—i.e. reliance on science over politics, transparency, and efficiency--that are consistent with the Administration's stated priorities.