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People in Brief

Loders Croklaan Lipid Nutrition hired William Craig as nationalaccounts manager to focus on the food industry and market development of thecompany's Marinol^TM and Betapol^TMingredients. ... Unigen Pharmaceuticals added Dave Menlove to its fieldsales organization, which is managed by Real Business Solutions. Menlovewill oversee sales in the Midwestern United States. ... Charles Mecham is nowdistrict sales representative for Utah for Kelatron Corp. ... KatieFerren joined BI Nutraceuticals as director of botanical products; sheworked formerly at Optipure/Soft Gel Technologies. ... NSFInternational appointed Robert Herman as laboratory manager and RichardAndrew as technical manager for the Drinking Water Treatment Units (DWTU)program. NSF also announced Harry Grenawitzke, vice president of regulatoryaffairs, received the 2002 Walter S. Mangold Award from the NationalEnvironmental Health Association. ... Bob Smith joined Stryka Botanics Co.Inc. as national sales manager; he will be based in New Jersey. ... AmpersandLabel celebrated the first anniversary of Paulette Carnes's tenure aspresident of the company; she joined Ampersand in 1987 as a client servicerepresentative. ... David Michael & Co. promoted Claude Simeon fromgeneral manager to president of its international operation in Valence, France,daroma David Michael SAS. ... USANA Health Sciences promoted David Wentzto president. Former President Dr. Myron Wentz will continue as chief executiveofficer (CEO) and chairman. ... Libby Harvey FitzGerald, manager and co-founderof theAlpha Laboratories division of Eurofins Scientific Inc. receivedthe 2002 Technology Industry Award for North Bay Business Journal'ssecond annual "Women in Business: Leaders, Innovators, Visionaries."... Frontier Natural Brands announced the resignation of Steve Hughes asCEO "to pursue personal interests." Board director Andy Pauley wasnamed interim CEO. ... Vital Living Inc. appointed Stuart A. Benson asexecutive vice president. ... Jacob Scherf has been named regional director,Europe and Asia, for Westvaco Brand Security; he will be employed byMeadWestvaco Europe s.p.r.l., a wholly owned subsidiary of MeadWestvaco Corp.... Gencor Pacific Inc. named Jit Maheshvari, Ph.D., director of salesand marketing. ... Vincent Paolizzi, Jr., is now pharmaceutical sales managerfor Schubert Packaging Systems. ... William Gallagher Associatesannounced that Robyn Fritz joined the property and casualty group as anassistant vice president in the Atlanta office. ... Rodrigo Guzman is a newcustomer service representative at Charkit Chemical Corp. ... AlgryQuimica appointed Yolanda Montoro as quality assurance (QA) manager; shewill be responsible for redesigning the company's QA structure system to matchISO-9000 and cGMP standards by the end of 2002. ... Ann Hollingsworth, Ph.D.,president of Better Built Foods in Carrollton, Ga., was electedpresident-elect of the Institute of Food Technologists during its 2002Annual Meeting in June. ... Green Circle Organics appointed HeidiDeArment as chief operating officer for the organic beef producer.