Appendix L
Acknowledgments
The Committee on Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements and the Food and Nutrition Board and Board on Life Sciences staff are grateful for the time and effort of the many contributors who participated in the workshops and meetings leading up to this report. Through openly sharing their considerable expertise and perspectives, these individuals brought clarity and focus to the challenging task of developing a useable and science-based framework for evaluating the safety of dietary supplement ingredients.
The list below mentions those individuals with whom we worked closely, but many others also deserve mention. Those individuals, whose names we do not know, made important contributions to the report by offering suggestions and insight at the many professional meetings and workshops the committee members attended. A number of the organizations listed below provided nominations for committee membership. The committee members, as well as the project staff, thank the following named (as well as unnamed) individuals and organizations.
INDVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS
F. Alan Andersen
Cosmetic Ingredient Review
Valdimir Anisimov
N.N. Petrov Research Institute Oncology
Dennis Awang
Mediplant
Adrianne Bendich
Council for Responsible Nutrition
Joseph Betz
American Herbal Products Association
Kristen Blanchard
Nutramax Laboratories, Inc.
Paul Bolar
Pharmavite LLC
Luke Bucci
Weider Nutrition International & Schiff Vitamins
Walter Chambliss
American Pharmaceutical Association
Keith Cheng
Pennsylvania State University
Edward Croom
Council for Responsible Nutrition
Steven Dentali
American Herbal Products Association
Annette Dickinson
Council for Responsible Nutrition
John Doull
Kansas University Medical Center
Debora Ferrier
Self-employed
Kenneth Fisher
Consultant
Albert Fleischner
Goen Technologies
David Graham
Food and Drug Administration
Marcia Greenblum
American Dietetic Association
Richard Hall
Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association
John C. Hammell
International Advocates for Health Freedom
John Hathcock
Council for Responsible Nutrition
J.T. Heimbach
JHeimbach LLC
James Kababick
Flora Research
James Komorowski
Nutrition 21, Inc.
Claire Kruger
Environ International
Gilbert A. Leveille
Consultant
Jeffrey Lipsius
Threshold Enterprises
Peter Ludwell
The Law Loft
Richard Malter
Retired
Hulon McClain
Whitehall-Robins Healthcare
David Roll
United States Pharmacopeia
Alan Rulis
Food and Drug Administration
Louis Scarano
Environmental Protection Agency
David Schardt
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Bruce Silverglade
Center for Science in the Public Interest
R. William Soller
Consumer Healthcare Products Association
Christine Lewis Taylor
Food and Drug Administration
Thomas N. Tiedt
Med-Tox Group
Susan Trimbo
Nutricia
Roy Upton
American Herbal Pharmacopoeia
José Vergés
BIOIBÉRICA S.A.
John Vincent
University of Alabama
John Walker
Environmental Protection Agency
Sidney Wolfe
Public Citizen’s Health Research Group
Snow Wynter
Dietary Supplement Quality
Anthony Young
American Herbal Products Association