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Next US FDA Commissioner Will Have Opening To Fill In Dietary Supplement Programs Office

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Steven Tave on 15 March will move from ODSP director to lead ORA’s Office of Strategic Planning and Operational Policy. Agency’s next commissioner, who Capitol Hill lobbyists say could be named next week, will appoint a replacement.

Washington, D.C., USA- January 13, 2020: FDA Sign outside their headquarters in Washington DC. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the USA.

The next US Food and Drug Administration commissioner will appoint the agency’s next dietary supplement programs chief as Steven Tave, the director since the programs were elevated from a division to an office in 2016, is moving to a regulatory affairs post.

With his move to the Office of Regulatory Affairs, Tave will join the FDA unit that conducts inspections of firms making products regulated by the Office of Dietary Supplement Programs as well as manufacturers and other

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