Mark Kantor’s professional career has been at the intersection of nutrition and food science, including positions in government, academia, and industry. He was a nutrition scientist and regulation writer at FDA for 14 years, where he contributed to the 2016 updates to the Nutrition Facts and Supplement Facts label regulations and responded to industry petitions pertaining to health claims and dietary fiber. He also assisted in writing the 2025 proposed rule on front-of-pack labeling. Prior to joining FDA, he spent 25 years as a faculty member at the University of Maryland, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, teaching, mentoring graduate and undergraduate student research projects, and conducting educational outreach programs through the Cooperative Extension Service. Mark’s degrees are from Rutgers and Cornell, and he is a Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists.