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STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA AND
ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN)
Darryl Sullivan
,
Covance Labs
SPIFAN & Working Group Chair
Darryl Sullivan is the Director of Industry and Regulatory Affairs for
the Food Solutions Division at Covance Laboratories. Mr. Sullivan
acts as the primary liaison with food, nutritional and dietary
supplement companies as well as providing expertise on designing
comprehensive testing programs to meet scientific and regulatory
requirements. In this role, he is often called upon as an expert
witness for litigation and dispute resolution. He has managed numerous different departments
at Covance including lab operations, research and development, client services, sample
management, sample preparation and study direction, as well as a satellite laboratory in
Michigan.
Mr. Sullivan received his BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has more than 35
years of experience in laboratory testing of food and dietary supplements. He is considered to
be an expert in the field of validation of analytical methods, having served for three years as
Chair of the AOAC INTERNATIONAL Official Methods Board. Mr. Sullivan was a member of the
Task Force that redesigned the AOAC Standards Development Process. He is currently the Past
President and Secretary of the AOAC INTERNATIONAL Board of Directors, and the Chair of the
AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals. He is also the Chair of the
AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Dietary Supplements. He is a former member of the Board of
Directors of the AOAC Research Institute. He is the Chair of the Analytical Laboratories
Committee of the American Herbal Product Association, a member of the USP Expert
Committee for Dietary Supplements, and is a member of the Joint Committee on Dietary
Supplements of NSF. He is a member of the CRN Regulatory Affairs Committee and the NPA
ComPLI Committee. Mr. Sullivan has developed and validated hundreds of analytical methods
in the areas of nutrient and residue testing, and is the author of more than 75 publications and
100’s of scientific presentations. In addition, he is the Past Chair of the AOAC Presidential Task
Force on Dietary Supplements and co-editor of the book Methods of Analysis for Nutrition
Labeling. He is also the co-editor of the book Improving Import Food Safety.