Chipotle Mexican Grill has appointed Frank Yiannas, former deputy commissioner for food policy and response at FDA, to its food safety advisory council. Yiannas will join a group of independent experts commissioned for the council, which was established in 2016, joining David Acheson, MD, Elisabeth Hagen, MD, Hal King, PhD, and James Marsden, PhD.
“I’m delighted to join and collaborate with some of the nation’s foremost food safety authorities and serve on Chipotle’s Food Safety Advisory Council,” Yiannas said in a statement. “I look forward to lending my experience to a company committed to ‘cultivating a better world’ that benefits people and the planet.”
At FDA, Yiannas served at FDA under two administrations in a position he held from 2018 to 2023 after spending 30 years in leadership roles with Walmart and the Walt Disney Company. Throughout his career, Yiannas has been recognized for his role in strengthening food safety standards in new and innovative ways, as well as building effective food safety management systems based on modern, science-based, and tech-enabled prevention principles.
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