Brent Flickinger, Ph.D., Associate Director, Safety & Regulatory, Food & Nutrition
Mr. Brent Flickinger is an Associate Director of Safety and Regulatory Affairs with the Food and Nutrition Group. His primary focus is supporting client needs for entry and expansion of products into food and dietary supplement marketplaces. In addition, his experience in claim substantiation and product quality/food safety provides the potential for assisting and developing client engagement when such opportunities arise.
Prior to joining Intertek, Mr. Flickinger led his own consulting practice that focused on providing product quality, regulatory and scientific affairs services to clients in food and dietary supplement industries following 22+ years at Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM). Teams under his leadership at ADM supported product compliance activities globally for ingredients marketed as food, feed, fuel, cosmetics, personal care, household products and industrial chemicals. In food and supplements spaces, both areas of safety (food and permissibility) and suitability (labelling and claim substantiation) were supported with activities ranging from Food Safety Plans-to-GRAS conclusions-to-health claims-to-systematic reviews involving innovative health and wellness-oriented ingredients such as soy isoflavones, flax lignans, interestified soybean oils and diacylglycerol oil as a few examples. His work also included engagement of academic, government, industry and professional organization stakeholders in topics related to advancing scientific understanding and public policy particularly at the intersection where nutrition meets food science. He has led various trade and professional organization committees and divisions related to health and nutrition especially related to dietary fats and oils.
