Healthcare >> Analyst Interviews >> May 13, 2003
DR. LESTER CRAWFORD, Deputy Commissioner of the Food and Drug
Administration, has extensive experience in FDA matters. His previous
government experience included serving as head of the FDA's Center of
Veterinary Medicine and, from 1987 to 1991, as Administrator of the
Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service. From
1993 to 1997, Dr. Crawford was the Executive Director of the Association
of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. During 10 years at the Food and
Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture, he played major
roles in mandatory nutrition labeling, the General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade food supply. Most recently Dr. Crawford served as the
Director of the Virginia Tech Center for Food and Nutrition Policy. Dr.
Crawford has also served as Executive Vice President of the National
Food Processors Association, and Chairman of the Department of
Physiology-Pharmacology at the University of Georgia. Dr. Crawford has a
Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Auburn University and he also
earned the PhD degree in Pharmacology from the University of Georgia. He
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK) and also a Fellow of
the International Society of Food Science and Technology. Profile
What's going on?
Dr. Crawford: We are a viable institution and under the leadership of
Dr. McClellan and also a lot of
