Food and Drug Administration's Center.The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN, pronounced sif'-san) is the branch of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which regulates food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics. "Food" within the context of FDA is a very broad term with some limitations. (CFSAN) in June appointed of Laura Tarantino director of CFSAN's Office of Food Additive Safety (OFAS). Tarantino will provide leadership for FDA's food additive safety program and will oversee all aspects of the center's petition review processes for food and color additives, consultation/notification processes for generally recognized as safe Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) is a United States of America Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designation that a chemical or substance added to food is considered safe by experts, and so is exempted from the usual Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) food (GRAS) substances, food contact substances, and foods and food ingredients derived from recombinant DNA biotechnology. Prior to her appointment, Tarantino served as acting director of CFSAN's Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling and Dietary Supplements for five months. Before that, she served as the deputy director of the Office of Food Additive Safety for seven years. Before coming to FDA, she was on the faculty at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, abbreviated P&S, is a graduate school of Columbia University located on the health sciences campus in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. and at Eastern Virginia Medical School Eastern Virginia Medical School, in Norfolk, Virginia is a public medical school. in Norfolk, Va. |
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