Chemical stewardship skilled reworked the group, shepherding it by its most profitable interval
WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., Feb. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Analysis Institute for Perfume Supplies (RIFM) Board of Administrators Chair, Robert Weinstein, Ph.D., introduced the retirement of James C. Romine, Ph.D., earlier at the moment. Dr. Romine joined RIFM in 2015 as President of the group; his final official day is March 31, 2023. Anne Marie Api, Ph.D., RIFM’s Vice President since 2006, will function RIFM’s President starting April 1, 2023.
“Dr. Romine led RIFM by probably the most impactful decade of its half-century of making certain the protected use of fragranced merchandise,” Dr. Weinstein stated. “His strategy-focused management, a long time of expertise stewarding chemical substances for business use, and real take care of and mentorship of the individuals he led and labored with propelled the group into a brand new period.”
“Once I joined RIFM in 2015, the group was getting into a interval of profound transformation,” Dr. Romine defined. “The groundwork for probably the most vital endeavor in RIFM’s historical past—the Standards for the RIFM security analysis course of for perfume elements—had simply been revealed. Because of this, RIFM scientists started constructing on their earlier security work to create actually complete, science-based evaluations of perfume elements.”
Dr. Romine’s enterprise processes savvy and his pure management drove the analysis of all the palette of discrete chemical security assessments over the following a number of years. Security assessments overlaying greater than 85% of the business quantity of use at the moment are peer-reviewed and revealed.
Dr. Romine oversaw a number of milestones throughout his tenure, together with the peer-reviewed publication of greater than two dozen groundbreaking analysis papers highlighting animal-alternative strategies, a complete organizational technique, and an entire rebrand, together with the Institute’s first-ever communications plan.
“Right here was this excellent group, racking up vital achievements, of which few perfume professionals, not to mention most of the people, had any consciousness,” Dr. Romine stated. “Consciousness of RIFM’s important work is rising every day, and I could not be prouder of this legacy.”
Earlier than becoming a member of RIFM, Dr. Romine was DuPont’s Vice President, Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs.
In regards to the Analysis Institute for Perfume Supplies
The Analysis Institute for Perfume Supplies (RIFM) assesses the security of perfume elements by probably the most present, internationally accepted pointers—and has executed so since its founding in 1966. All of RIFM’s peer-reviewed security assessments and analysis are free to the general public by way of fragrancematerialsafetyresource.elsevier.com.
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