DARRYL SULLIVAN, COVANCE LABORATORIES
Chair, AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements
Darryl Sullivan is a Fellow of AOAC and has been an active member since 1980. He has served terms as
secretary, president-elect, president, past president, and director of the Board of Directors, and
previously served a three-year term as chair of the Official Methods Board, and is currently serving as
Chair of the AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals. In 2012 Darryl lead a very
successful AOAC engagement with government and industry thought leaders in India and China on
behalf of SPIFAN. He is also active with the Stakeholder Panel for Strategic Food Analytical Methods and
the Stakeholder Panel for Agent Detection Assays. Sullivan also served a three-year term as a director on
the AOAC Research Institute Board of Directors. He was a founding member and chair of the
Presidential Task Force on Dietary Supplements and a member of the Task Force on
Bacillus anthracis
, as
well as the AOAC Task Force on Nutrition Labeling and the AOAC Task Force on Sulfites. Prior to
chairing the OMB, he served as a member and chair of the Methods Committee on Commodity Foods
and Commodity Products. Sullivan was a founding member of the AOAC Technical Division on Reference
Materials and served three terms on the Division's Executive Board. A staunch supporter of the
Association, Sullivan was active in the e-CAM and Scholar I projects at AOAC, has exhibited at the annual
meetings for many years, has presented hundreds of papers and posters at AOAC meetings and
regularly publishes his research in the journal of the AOAC. He has also presented a significant number
of papers on behalf of AOAC at other scientific meetings in many different parts of the world.