Emerging Issues Committee
The Emerging Issues Committee (EIC) is crucial to CRIS’s success and is comprised of scientific leaders from industry, academia, government and non-governmental organizations with relevant research experience. The role of the EIC is to serve as a scientific steering committee for CRIS. The EIC sets and prioritizes short-term and long-term strategic and scientific objectives of importance to assessing food and packaged goods ingredient safety. The EIC meets monthly via teleconference to solicit, discuss and prioritize emerging issues. The EIC also meets face-to-face at least once a year – usually at the CRIS Annual Meeting.
Industry members of the EIC are elected by the CRIS members. Non-industry members of the EIC are appointed by the CRIS Internal Advisory Committee (IAC). All members of the EIC serve on a limited and rotating term basis ensuring that no one person or entity has undue influence over CRIS while also ensuring continuity.
Emerging Issues Committee Members
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Elisabeth Anderson
Director of Science Communication
elisande@msu.edu
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Sudin Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor
sbhattac@msu.edu
517.884.6952
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Kevin Boyd
Manager Allergens and Toxicology, The Hershey Company
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Leon Bruner
Professor, Institute for Integrative Toxicology, Michigan State University
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Sam Cohen
Vice-Chair, EIC Committee; Havlik-Wall Professor of Oncology, University of Nebraska Medical Center
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Alex Eapen
Director, R&D Scientific & Regulatory Affairs – North America at Cargill
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Steven Hermansky
Senior Advisor, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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James Klaunig
Professor, School of Public Health, Indiana University
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Kelly Magurany
Chair, EIC Committee; Senior Research Toxicologist, NSF International
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Clare Menezes
Snr Director Global Food Integrity & Risk, McCormick & Company Inc.
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Nathanial Parizek, Ph.D.
Toxicologist, Sherwin-Williams Packaging Coatings
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Michael Rizzo
Sr. Scientist, Scientific Affairs, PepsiCo, Inc
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Pam Spencer
Senior Director, Regulatory Affairs and Product Stewardship, ANGUS Chemical Company
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Joe Zagorski, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
zagorsk4@msu.edu