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Susan Mayne appointed director of FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

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SUSAN MAYNE was appointed director of the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

Mayne is the Winslow Professor of Epidemiology; associate director for population sciences at Yale Cancer Center; and chair of the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health.

Mayne joined Yale University in 1987 as a post-doctoral fellow, and directed Yale Cancer Center’s Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program from 1993-2010. She also served as associate director for population sciences from 1995. She is the recipient of several national awards in mentoring and training and for her service to many organizations including the National Academy of Sciences. She has also served on the NCI Board of Scientific Counselors.

The center regulates $417 billion worth of domestic food, $49 billion worth of imported foods, and over $60 billion worth of cosmetics sold across state lines, and is supported by a staff of over 800 employees, with a budget of nearly $300 million.

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