When Michael Taylor leaves the post of FDA's Deputy
Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine on June 1, 2016, Dr. Stephen Ostroff, former acting FDA
Commissioner, will become the Deputy Commissioner for the
program. Mr. Taylor, a nationally recognized food safety
expert, led the implementation of FSMA. He had previously served as
administrator of USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service
("FSIS"), where he spearheaded public health-oriented
reform of FSIS, guided the development of new safety requirements
for meat and poultry products, and addressed the hazard associated
with E. coli O157:H7 in beef products.
Dr. Ostroff, before serving as acting FDA Commissioner, was named the agency's chief scientist in 2014 and was responsible for leading and coordinating FDA's cross-cutting scientific and public health efforts. Dr. Ostroff joined FDA in 2013 as chief medical officer in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition ("CFSAN"), where he was a senior public health advisor to Mr. Taylor.
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