Residues of Mineral Oil and Synthetic Hydrocarbons in Food

Jan Cardon is a Commercial Engineer and he has been working in different positions for paper and board converting associations, both at the Belgian and European level since 1989. Currently he is Technical Advisor of ECMA and from the staff side in charge of the ECMA Food Safety Committee. Within this platform of committed senior experts, the FCM related sector positions are defined and guidance is provided for the membership.

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.

Lydia Richter is a Food Chemist and Head of Laboratory at the Chemical and Veterinary Official Control Laboratory (CVUA) Stuttgart. Her main area of work is focused on method development for gas chromatography analysis of FCM and body contact materials and supervision of the research project for the establishment of mineral oil analysis at CVUA Stuttgart. She is a member of the ‘German BfR Committee on Consumer Products’

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.