Susan T. Mayne, PhD, FACE

Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
College Park, Maryland, United States

Susan T. Mayne, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In this position, Dr. Mayne leads the Center’s development and implementation of programs and policies related to the composition, quality, safety, and labeling of foods, food and color additives, and cosmetics. CFSAN’s responsibilities also include fostering the development of healthier foods and ensuring that consumers have access to accurate and useful information to make healthy food choices.

As Director at CFSAN, she has overseen landmark activities including issuing numerous rules to implement the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, releasing an updated Nutrition Facts label which includes added sugars for the first time, determining that industrially produced trans fats are not generally recognized as safe and thus cannot be added to foods, implementing menu labeling requirements, and issuing sodium reduction targets for industry to improve the healthfulness of the U.S. food supply.

An internationally recognized public health leader and scientist, Dr. Mayne received a B.A. in chemistry from the University of Colorado. She earned a Ph.D. in nutritional sciences, with minors in biochemistry and toxicology, from Cornell University. She came to the FDA from Yale University, where she was the C.-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology and the Associate Director of the Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Presentation(s):

• Update from the FDA

  On Demand

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.