Lauren Posnick Robin, Sc.D., is Chief, Plant Products Branch, in the Division of Plant Products and Beverages, Office of Food Safety, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Robin is also the U.S. Delegate to the Codex Committee for Contaminants in Food. She has a B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College and an Sc.D. in Molecular and Cellular Toxicology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She was an AAAS Risk Policy Fellow at the FDA from 1999-2000.