Herbalife Appoints Foremost Industry Expert as Vice President, Botanical Sciences
27 Juni 2013 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Global nutrition company, Herbalife (NYSE: HLF), announced today
that Steven Dentali, Ph.D., joins the company in the newly created
role of vice president, botanical sciences. Dentali will report to
Vasilios Frankos, Ph.D., senior vice president, global product
science, safety and compliance, and former director of US FDA
Dietary Supplements division.
Dentali will be responsible for all activities related to
botanicals, including the identification, documentation and
validation of the appropriate botanical ingredients, formulations
and processes that meet standards and requirements for product
quality, efficacy, safety and regulatory acceptability.
Dentali joins Herbalife after a 22-year post-graduate career in
the US herbal and dietary supplement industry, where he is
recognized as a foremost expert, and an authority on botanical
product quality issues. He was most recently chief science officer
at the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA), where he helped
to set quality standards for the botanical products industry and
provide guidance and advice to AHPA member companies, related
organizations, government agencies, scientific publications, and
the media.
Prior to that, Dentali held a number of scientific, quality
assurance and product development roles for companies such as
Rexall Sundown, Inc. and Trout Lake Farm.
Dentali is a member of the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) Standards
Expert Committee: Nomenclature, Safety, and Labeling; a member of
the USP Expert Panel of Elemental Impurities; and Chair of the
Dietary Supplements and Herbal Medicines Nomenclature Subcommittee.
He is also Editorial Board Chair of AOAC International; an advisory
board member of the American Botanical Council and the American
Herbal Pharmacopoeia; and he also chaired the Product Quality
Working Group of the National Advisory Council for the Center for
Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes
of Health from 2005 to 2007.
Dentali holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Human
Nutrition from the Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA. He also
holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, with a Natural Products
Chemistry specialization, from the University of Arizona, where he
was the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education Edwin
Leigh Newcomb Memorial Fellow.
About Herbalife Ltd.
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) is a global nutrition company that
sells weight-management, nutrition and personal care products
intended to support a healthy lifestyle. Herbalife products are
sold in more than 80 countries to and through a network of
independent distributors. The company supports the Herbalife Family
Foundation and its Casa Herbalife program to help bring good
nutrition to children. Herbalife's website contains information
about Herbalife, including financial and other information at
www.herbalife.com.
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