my name is jillian buckley and i'm the institute of medicine study director for this report ensuring safe food and medical products through stronger regulatory systems abroad. and i'm very happy to be with you today to share with a wider audience, the committee's work for the last year on building capacity for food and drug regulation in developing countries. and it's a pleasure to introduce to you professor jim riviera. the welcome fund distinguished professor of pharmacologist at north carolina state university. he was elected to the iom in 2003 for his contributions to the mathematic modeling of farm coe kinetics and toxicology as well as work in risk assessment and food safety. he directs the center for chemical toxicology research at the n.c. state college of veterinary medicine and will review with you the conclusions and recommendations the committee made in this report. so thank you very much, and here's jim. >> thank you, jillian, and thank you for coming out to listen to what we've done over the last year, year and a half. what i would like to do is to briefly review this r