With news that UNPA is sunsetting this year<\/a>, Israelsen also paid tribute to two of his long-time collaborators: Trish Knight and Peter Reinecke. <\/p>\n\u201cWell, of all the people that were involved in DSHEA, Peter and Trish \u2013 and Steve McNamara \u2013 those three were the most important people,\u201d said Israelsen. \u201cPeter was the health policy staff director for Senator Harkin; Trish, health policy staffer for Senator Hatch. Democrat and Republican. The fluidity and the collegiality of the relationship between Peter and Trish and their bosses is something that we long for in the Congress today, and they were so committed to this bill because their bosses were, but they personally were too. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the amount of time and attention they gave it, and just a relentless, relentless, we will not let this go, which is also their bosses\u2019 personalities, I consider to be central, and they ran the command control, and they told people what to do and what not to do, and we followed their lead. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve received more than my due share of credit, I believe. And it\u2019s high time that Peter and Trish and a number of other people be recognized for their tremendous contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch the video for the full interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) \u2013 not to be confused with the Office of Dietary Supplement Programs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[8421,49093,41668,101346,33453,20619,5237,164373,7552,7553,164374,20733,29366,102,86734,3247,7554,11620,105,6591,164375,6636,75911,14143,305,306,38973,9479,56,54,55,17706,4884,151995],"class_list":["post-829239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-america","tag-approval","tag-building","tag-certification","tag-clinical-trials","tag-drug","tag-drug-development","tag-exterior","tag-fda","tag-fda-approval","tag-fda-approved","tag-federal","tag-food-additives","tag-health","tag-health-and-human-services","tag-health-care","tag-hhs","tag-landmark","tag-maryland","tag-medication","tag-naval-ordnance-laboratory","tag-nutrition","tag-outdoor","tag-park","tag-policy","tag-regulation","tag-restricted-area","tag-trees","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-urban","tag-vaccine","tag-vaccine-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}