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Faculty I.D.: Robert Krueger Professor of Pharmacy. |
 Robert Krueger |
Who:
Robert Krueger, professor of Pharmacy.
Early Interests:
“When I was a sophomore in high school I read a book by Margaret Kreig called Green Medicine: The Search for Plants that Heal. One of the research labs Kreig featured was the University of Connecticut, which influenced me to do my undergraduate work there. When I graduated in the spring of ’71, I was offered a fellowship to the University of Iowa to get my Ph.D. in pharmacognosy and work in plant cell cultures, which is still what I consider my primary research effort at Ferris.”
Most Recently:
Spent Fall 2007 sabbatical at the Council for Responsible Nutrition in Washington, D.C. “One of my responsibilities was to lecture at the CRN conference annual meeting in Phoenix. I also interfaced with industry about inquiries that a company may get from government regulators, customers or whomever. Some of our members’ companies are small and don’t have experts in every field, so they look to the trade organization for information.”
For Consumers:
“Mandatory reporting of adverse effect occurrences began Dec. 22 last year. It’s a new Food and Drug Administration regulation for dietary supplements. Also, new FDA requirements for current Good Manufacturing Processes cGMPs will go into effect for large companies on June 8 this year; for medium-sized companies in June 2009; and in small companies that may have to hire people and purchase equipment in June 2010. After this is fully implemented, what you read on a dietary supplement label has to be what you get and nothing else. When you have good products, you can do good research. When you can do good research, then you can have the proper claims on the bottle. Consumers should be very happy with the cGMPs and the mandatory reporting of adverse events.”
Best Non-Work Experience in D.C.:
“I got to see a live Wollemi Pine in the U.S. Botanical Gardens. It had only been known from fossil records, but then was discovered growing in a remote canyon in Australia. Only about 100 specimens were found, but they have now been cultured into several thousand. I let out a ‘Wow!’ when I saw it and quickly had to explain to the people around me what the big deal was. They seemed duly impressed.”