The Face of Food Safety: Meet FSIS’s Oanh Le

Oanh Le’s first exposure to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Services may have been through her mother and father, but it was not a legacy to follow in their footsteps. As a child, Le’s parents worked at Tyson Foods, with his mother working on the chicken patty production line and his father working in facility maintenance. They respected the FSIS consumer safety inspectors who walked around the plant with authority. “They just thought it would be so neat and such a nice thing to do,” she recalls, “and of course it just popped into my head.”