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Verbeten Leaving FDA's Import Office

John Verbeten is leaving his role as deputy director for import operations enforcement at FDA’s Office of Enforcement and Import Operations to head to the same agency’s Center for Tobacco Products, the FDA said May 13. Verbeten will direct the…

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center’s office of compliance and enforcement. There “will be a series” of acting officials in Verbeten’s former position “while we recruit, hire and onboard a permanent replacement,” an FDA spokesperson told us. “We hope to finish that process as quickly as possible but cannot provide a definitive timeline.”