Jackie Bowen
Clean Label Project / CSQ
Executive Director of Clean Label Project & CSQ Board Member
Jaclyn Bowen is a food safety and quality systems engineer and executive director of Clean Label Project, a national non-profit and consumer advocacy organization with the mission to bring truth and transparency to food and consumer product labeling. Through data, science, and benchmarking, Clean Label Project uses retail sampling and testing to benchmark product quality and purity of North America's best selling food and consumer products and award Clean Label Project's coveted evidence-based Purity Award. Bowen was the researcher and co-author behind one of the largest academic peer-reviewed studies ever conducted on contaminants and labeling integrity of top-selling CBD products which was published in the international multidisciplinary journal, Science of the Total Environment. She also presented these findings before the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on Narcotics in Vienna, Austria. She is on the board of Cannabis Safety and Quality. Before coming to Clean Label Project, Jaclyn held numerous technical, standards development, food safety, quality, and executive roles within the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre, NSF International. Her expertise is in organic, gluten-free, non-gmo labeling, food safety, and label claim substantiation and compliance. Bowen and Clean Label Project have appeared on NBC, ABC, CNN, ‘The Doctors’, 'Dr. Oz', 'Dr. Drew' and 450+ print and online media outlets including USA Today and Huff Post. Bowen holds a Bachelors of Science in environmental biology, a Master of Science in quality engineering and a Master of Public Health in management and policy.
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