Author: James L. Summers is Senior Consultant with EAS Consulting Group, LLC (Alexandria, VA), a leading provider of regulatory services to the food, dietary supplement, and cosmetic industries. He is a former FDA food labeling expert with 32 years tenure at FDA. He has held positions as Aquatic Sampling Specialist, Supervisory Microbiologist, Public Health Sanitarian, General Biologist, FDA Inspector, Regional Shellfish Specialist, and Consumer Safety Officer (Division of Regulatory Guidance). His most recent positions with the FDA were as Supervisory Consumer Safety Officer, Branch Chief, and Senior Consumer Safety Officer in the Office of Food Labeling, where he handled the most controversial, complex, and precedent-setting problems involving regulatory compliance issues dealing with food labeling. He participated in the development of policies and regulatory strategies regarding the enforcement of NLEA and other food labeling regulations.

Contributor: Elizabeth J. (Betty) Campbell now serves as Vice President of EAS Consulting Group, LLC (Alexandria, VA), following a 35-year career with the FDA where she worked as Director of Programs and Enforcement Policy in the Office of Food Labeling in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and as Acting Director of the Office of Food Labeling. Ms. Campbell played a key role in writing the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) regulations in the early 1990s, and then had major responsibility for implementing those regulations.