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This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
CFSAN begins search for new director: Stephen Sundlof, head of FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition since January 2008, has left the agency to accept a two-year assignment with the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, according to a May 3 staff memo from FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and Deputy Commissioner for Foods Mike Taylor. Sundlof, a veterinarian and toxicologist, has been at FDA for 16 years, serving 14 years as director of its Center for Veterinary Medicine. In a same-day announcement, FDA says Michael Landa, deputy director for regulatory affairs at CFSAN since 2004, will step in as acting director. Landa began at FDA in 1978 as assistant chief counsel for enforcement, medical devices and veterinary medicine. Roberta Wagner and Donald Kraemer have been named acting deputy directors. Wagner has run CFSAN's Office of Compliance since 2008, and Kraemer has been deputy director of CFSAN's Office of Food Safety since 2007
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