Bio

Steve Mister is the chief staff officer of this $7million trade association representing the dietary supplement and functional food industry. His responsibilities include strategic leadership of the organization, developing and implementing the annual budget, supervising a staff of 19 and coordinating tactical efforts in scientific, regulatory, legislative, media relations and communication outreach to achieve CRN’s mission of enhancing and sustaining a climate in which its members can responsibly develop, manufacture, and market dietary supplements, functional food and their nutritional ingredients. During Mister’s tenure, the association has rewritten its Code of Ethics, adopted new Voluntary Guidelines, and successfully lobbied for enactment of the adverse event reporting law for dietary supplements (the Dietary Supplement & Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act) and the Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act with full support of CRN’s members. CRN has developed education and compliance programs to assure industry implementation of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) regulations specific to dietary supplements and strengthened CRN’s rapid response to consumer media. It has expanded CRN’s outreach to healthcare professionals and conceived and executed consumer affairs programs such as Life…Supplemented, a $6 million, multi-year campaign to raise awareness of supplements, and Labelwise, a consumer education initiative. Mr. Mister led the association to launch the Supplement OWL, an industry-run online registry of dietary supplements and their labels. He is a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Association Committee of 100 and currently serves as Vice Chair of the International Alliance of Dietary Supplement Associations (IADSA) and on the steering committee of the Dietary Supplement Quality Collaborative (DSQC). Management strengths include implementing staff performance evaluations and professional development goals; building CRN’s reserves; conducting ongoing strategic capacity assessments to identify and articulate the guiding values of the organization while establishing and implementing strategic objectives to achieve the those goals.