FDA’s Food Safety Chief Acheson Adds Interim CFSAN Post
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA's first food safety director, David Acheson, also will serve as acting director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition when Director Robert Brackett leaves, the agency said Nov. 20
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