The Food and Drug Administration's director of food safety is leaving the agency for an academic post, the FDA said Monday.
Stephen Sundlof, who has been with the FDA 16 years, will join the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, according to a statement from the FDA.
A veterinarian and research scientist by training, Dr. Sundlof became director of the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in January 2008. That was partly because his background in toxicology was relevant to emerging food-safety issues, such as the increase in antimicrobial resistance in food-borne bacteria and "mad cow" disease, which was linked to the consumption of some European beef products.
The deputy director of regulatory affairs at the food-safety center, Michael Landa, will become its acting chief.
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