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SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Food and Agriculture is announcing vacancies on two advisory boards within the Inspection Services Division.
CDFA’s Inspection Services Division protects consumers and the marketplace through inspection of fruit, vegetables and eggs as well as through regulation of commercial feed and agricultural inputs (fertilizers and livestock drugs).
Member vacancies are available on the Fertilizer Inspection Advisory Board and the Feed Inspection Advisory Board.
The Fertilizer Inspection Advisory Board makes recommendations to the CDFA secretary on all matters pertaining to the Fertilizing Materials Inspection Program. The program ensures that consumers receive fertilizing materials that are safe and effective and the meet the quality guaranteed by the manufacturer. One public member vacancy is available.
Applicants should not hold a current California Fertilizing Materials License or be a representative of a licensed fertilizer firm.
The Feed Inspection Advisory Board makes recommendations to the CDFA secretary on all matters pertaining to the Feed Inspection Program. The program ensures that feed manufacturers provide a clean and wholesome product to consumers. Four member vacancies are available on the advisory board for commercial feed industry representatives. Applicants should hold a current California Commercial Feed License.
The term of office for advisory board members is three years. Members receive no compensation, but are entitled to payment of necessary traveling expenses in accordance with the rules of the Department of Personnel Administration.
Individuals interested in serving on advisory board should send a resume by Dec. 31 to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Feed, Fertilizer, Livestock Drugs and Egg Regulatory Services Branch, 1220 ‘N’ Street, Sacramento, CA 95814-5607, Attention: Dr. Asif A. Maan.
For additional information on CDFA’s Inspection Services Division and associated advisory boards, please contact Mr. Dale Rice at (916) 445-0444 or e-mail
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The CDFA has successfully brought the amount of toxic pesticides used in California to over 200 million pounds per year. That is about six pounds for every man, woman, child, fetus and pregnant woman EVERY YEAR. CDFA works for the benefit of these corporate chemical companies, for their own existence and power, but not for the consumers or growers in the agriculture community. CDFA does not protect the food supply or the environment.
CDFA has contributed dramatically to the devastation of wild life, beneficial insects and bees that are so important for pollinating our food crops. Yet CDFA's public relations work and expenditures grow as they publicize themselves as the caretakers of our food, our environment and essentially our children's caretakers.
CDFA fakes insects as dangerous to rob $$$billions of dollars of public funds for unnecessary programs, yet they are penny cheap in assisting growers with legitimate difficulties such as population intrusion and water problems. CDFA strong-arms small growers with unnecessary inspections and quarantines, and they threaten shutting down growers who don't play along.
It is no accident or coincidence that A.G. Kawamura was not at the Florez hearing for his own agency's survival, reorganization or budget. Kawamura, the CDFA director, has delivered so many false statements to the press, public and agriculture community over so many years that he simply could not substantiate his comments or actions under the scrutiny of Senator Florez. Instead, they sent a lady with a smooth tongue who no longer works at the CDFA, but who works in marketing and relations and Florez could not hold her accountable, as he could had Kawamura been in the hearing. With Public relations and misrepresentations, CDFA is the master.
Here is but one example of a recent sham by CDFA:
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/view/76798
The concept of CDFA sounds legitimate, but the activities of CDFA under Kawamura are not.