• Food safety law implementation PL 111-353 with emphasis on those titles related to the inspection and testing of imported and domestic food ingredients. Federal meat, poultry, egg and food inspection processes related to food safety testing and monitoring.
• Animal health and diagnostics.

Duration: November 1, 2009 to March 15, 2012

General Issues: Food Industry (Safety, Labeling, etc.), Agriculture, Environmental/Superfund

Spending: about $95,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2009: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Agriculture - Dept of (USDA)