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Former CRN President Annette Dickinson Leaves Legacy Of Strengthening US Supplement Industry

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Annette Dickinson was CRN’s original staff member when she helped form the group in 1973 and retired in 2005 after serving as president since 2003. CRN’s founders saw a need for "an association that was science-based, that took a rational approach to issues, that did not view regulators as necessarily the devil incarnate.”

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Annette Dickinson had a key role at pivotal points in the history of US regulation of dietary supplement manufacturers and marketers through her work for more than 30 years with the Council for Responsible Nutrition.

Dickinson died on 15 January at Region’s Hospital in St. Paul, MN after a short illness; she was 81, according to her obituary posted by Washburn-McReavy Funeral Services.

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