09.20.12
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), College Park, MD, has recognized Ikhlas A. Khan, assistant director of the University of Mississippi’s School of Pharmacy’s National Center for Natural Products Research and director of its FDA Center for Excellence in Botanicals, by awarding him the CFSAN Director’s Special Citation Award. Mr. Khan received the award as a result of his “outstanding leadership, dedication and teamwork in support of CFSAN’s dietary supplement and cosmetics regulatory programs.” The University of Mississippi and the NCNPR first partnered with FDA in 2001 to develop standards for botanical dietary supplements.