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STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA AND
ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN)
Robert Rankin,
INCA
Robert Rankin is a Senior Account Executive at Kellen, a global
professional services firm specializing in trade associations,
professional societies and communications.
Robert currently serves as Executive Director for the Infant
Nutrition Council of America (INCA), an association representing
manufacturers of formulated nutrition products, including infant formulas and adult
nutritionals. Since 2005, Robert has worked closely with officials at key US Government
agencies including the US Food and Drug Administration and US Department of Agriculture. He
has also worked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other
US/international government agencies. He has extensive experience in the development and
communication of industry positions and has testified before U.S. state legislatures, the World
Health Organization and local authorities on industry issues.
Since 2010, Robert has managed Stakeholder Panel on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals
(SPIFAN) Project on behalf of the infant formula industry. Through SPIFAN, voluntary consensus
standards and internationally recognized methods of analysis for over 40 nutrients in infant
formula have been developed with the ultimate goal of having the methods adopted by Codex
Alimentarius as Type II dispute resolution methods.
Robert also serves as President of the Calorie Control Council and Executive Director of the
International Food Additives Council. Prior to Kellen, Robert spent two years at the Grocery
Manufacturers Association where he worked in the Federal Affairs and Scientific & Regulatory
Departments. Robert has a BA in Public Policy Studies from Duke University and lives in
Maryland with his wife and two children.