Lorillard Creates New Role to Ensure FDA Compliance

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 06/09/2011

Lorillard has appointed Dr. Neil L. Wilcox, a former US Food and Drug Administration science policy analyst, as senior vice president of product-related regulations and chief compliance officer. The company says that in the newly created role, Wilcox will oversee and manage regulatory affairs, including plans to achieve regulatory compliance with federal regulations such as the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. "Neil Wilcox brings a commanding knowledge of regulatory affairs to Lorillard, where he will help build out a robust regulatory function to meet the requirements of the federal tobacco law and FDA regulations," said Murray S. Kessler, Lorillard's chairman, president and CEO. Wilcox spent 13 years at the FDA as a science and regulatory expert; since 2008 as science policy analyst in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. From 1990 to 1999 his work at the FDA included serving as senior science policy officer in the Office of Science, Office of the Commissioner. He left the FDA in 1999 to serve as director of global regulatory affairs at The Gillette Company and then as vice president of global regulatory and scientific affairs at Kimberly-Clark Corp. At both corporations his role included developing and implementing plans to achieve global regulatory compliance for a range of products. Enditem