A former acting commissioner and a former senior advisor at the US Food and Drug Administration agree with an expert panel’s recent recommendations that improving the agency’s food safety programs starts at the top.
Stephen Ostroff, a public health and regulatory consultant whose career with the agency included a stint as acting commissioner, and Sharon Lindan Mayl, a partner at DLA Piper LLP who was senior advisor to the commissioner on food programs in her final post at the FDA, say the Reagan-Udall Foundation was accurate in finding that establishing food program leadership with defined