Residues of Mineral Oil and Synthetic Hydrocarbons in Food

Maurus Biedermann is a Chemical Analyst and Laboratory Head at the Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich. He has more than 30 years of experience in food analysis and was involved in the development of large volume on-column GC injection and the on-line coupling of HPLC with GC.

Stefanka Bratinova is an Analytical Chemist and a Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Geel. From 2004 to 2010 she worked on temporary contracts in EURL-FCM in Ispra, joined the Unit of Food Safety at JRC-Geel (former IRMM) in 2012 and returned back to EURL-FCM activities after JRC seized to operate the teams of EURL-PAHs and EURL-Mycotoxins.

Ludger Brühl is a Food Chemist and working for the Working Group of Lipid Research in the Department of Safety and Quality of Cereals of the Max Rubner-Institut (MRI) in Detmold. Ludger Brühl has long experiences with the improvement of quality of fats and oils,

Juan-Carlos Carrillo is a European Registered Toxicologist (ERT) with expertise in Bioengineering, Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology and has been working for Shell International in the Netherlands since 2006. As a Senior Toxicologist he is directly responsible for planning, monitoring and interpreting toxicology studies. At industry level, he has been the chairman of industry task forces in Europe dealing with scientific and regulatory issues regarding the safety of petroleum products (CONCAWE and IPIECA) or Chemicals (CEFIC and ECETOC).

James Kevin Chipman is Emeritus Professor at the University of Birmingham UK and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor. His research speciality is on molecular mechanisms of cellular toxicity and ecotoxicology with an emphasis on toxicogenomics, genotoxicity and epigenetics. He is a former member of the UK Committee on Toxicology, and of the UK Department of Health Committee on Safety of Medicines. He also served as former President of the British Toxicology Society and Director of the International Union of Toxicology. He currently is a member of EFSA CONTAM Panel and various working groups. In 2020 he became the Chair of the EFSA WG on MOH in food.

Dirk F. Danneels was retired in 2015 and spent most of his career in the chemical industry, the last 25 years with the Honeywell’s “Performance Materials and Technologies” business. Since 2006 he has been leading globally all Honeywell’s REACH related activities. In 2009 he took on the role of Secretary General for the European Wax Federation.

Christophe Goldbeck is a state-certified Food Chemist and has been active for many years as an expert in the field of consumer goods. At the Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher-Lippe (CVUA-MEL), he works in the field of consumer goods, cosmetics and tobacco and has over 15 years of experience in the area of consumer goods.

Konrad Grob retired as a Chemical Analyst of the Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich in 2019. He is an expert in risk assessment at the CEP Panel of EFSA, in several EFSA working gropus and in the Bedarfsgegenständekommission of the German BfR.

Thomas Gude is Managing Director of Thomas Gude GmbH, which specialises in consulting in the areas of food contact materials, food and non-food. After about 30 years with authorities, the pharmaceutical and chemical industries and a long time as the operational manager of a Swiss laboratory, he now deals with risk assessments, especially in the food contact and consumer goods sector. In addition, he teaches at various universities and technical colleges, in particular at ETH Zurich.

Martin Lommatzsch has founded Laboratory Lommatzsch & Säger in 2018 offering routine & comprehensive analysis as well as research projects with focus on MOSH/MOAH and FCM. He was PhD student of the Technical University Dresden (Chair of the Food Science and FCM) in cooperation with the Cantonal Laboratory Zurich, G&G Department, from 2012 to 2015.

Michele Marazzato is a Biologist and a Process Development Scientist and has been R&D Lead Contaminants at the Cargill Global Edible Oil Solutions Business Group in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, since 2021.

Thomas Simat has been a Professor and the Chair of Food Science and FCM at the Technische Universität Dresden with research on FCM since 2003. He is the Chairman of the ‘German BfR Committee on Consumer Products’’.

Veerle Vanheusden is a Policy Officer in DG SANTE of the European Commission. She joined the European Commission in 2013, where she worked for four years in the Unit “Pesticides and Biocides”. In 2017 she moved to the Unit dealing with food processing technologies and novel foods, where her main area of activity is the EU policy and legislation on contaminants. She has previously worked in the private pharmaceutical sector.