Food Safety and Dietary Risk Assessment

Monika Bross is analytical chemist by training; she has been working at BASF Agricultural Center in Limburgerhof for more than 30 years. Within BASF she has been involved in the conduct of residue and metabolism studies, but also in dietary exposure assessments and the preparation of dossiers for international submissions. She is member of association expert teams dealing with residue related topics (including MRL setting) and the implementation of the EU Transparency Regulation.

Johannes Diederich is a Food Chemist with nearly eight years experience in residue analytics and has been working as a Scientist of the Unit Residues and Analytical Methods in the Department Pesticides Safety at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) since 2020. He is involved in the assessment of the residue behaviour and health risk of plant protection products and in the course of the European and national approval of active substances and authorisation of products.

Michael Doherty’s professional career started with the Pesticide Degradation Laboratory in the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, where he spent 13 years working on pesticide residue profiles in soil and environmental modeling. In 1997, Michael joined the EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs’ Health Effects Division as a residue chemist and risk assessor. Over the years, his role in OPP has taken a more international focus as a member of the OECD’s Residue Chemistry Expert Group and as a member of the FAO panel to the JMPR.

Bruno Dujardin is a senior scientific officer at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), where he has gained extensive experience in the regulatory risk assessment of chemicals. Recently, he took up a new role as team leader within the Methodology and Scientific Support unit. His team provides transversal support on exposure assessment, statistical data analysis and modelling. Within this capacity, Bruno is also responsible for steering the implementation of more holistic approaches that account for combined exposure to multiple chemicals.

Ingo Großsteiner studied nutrition and food science in Vienna. He is a highly experienced professional with over ten years of experience in various aspects of product and active substance safety, with an active interest in food safety and sustainable food systems and started working at AGES in 2014.

Caroline Harris is a Principal Scientist in Exponent International’s UK office and has been the Centre Director for Chemical Regulation and Food Safety for over 20 years. After many years as a Regulator at CRD, she continues to be involved with MRLs, import tolerances and pesticide residues in international trade. She also remains highly active in the field of consumer risk assessment.

Karsten Hohgardt is the Head of the unit responsible for risk management in the field of toxicology and residue behaviour at BVL. His main experience lies in MRL setting and residue behaviour.

Emma Ingram holds a degree in Chemistry with toxicology and forensics and has been working as a Scientific Officer for HSE since 2015, undertaking assessment of data submitted in support of pesticide active substances, products and MRLs in accordance with Assimilated Regulation 1107/2009 and Assimilated Regulation 396/2005, with a strong focus on consumer risk assessment. She is part of the GB and NI monitoring team, undertaking dietary intake assessments and drafting risk assessments. In addition to this she is part of a GB working group considering how chronic dietary exposure assessment is undertaken in the UK across government organisations, part of the OECD working group on pesticide residues and MRL setting in honey and is leading on the development of a GB toxicological reference value database.

Opaline Journeau is an Agronomy Engineer and joined ANSES in 2020 in the Residue and Food Safety Unit in charge of pesticide and biocide consumer risk assessment.

Carsten Kneuer is a Toxicologist and the Head of the Unit “Toxicology of Active Substances and their Metabolites“ in the Pesticides Safety Department of the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment. His group is evaluating the mammalian toxicology of pesticides within the EU assessment framework and actively involved in various projects aimed at the advancement of our risk assessment practice.

Klaus Leder studied technical Chemistry in Vienna and has been working at AGES since 2011. At AGES, he was involved in the assessment of plant protection products as well as active substances. In 2019, he became overall coordinator for active substances for which Austria is responsible (new & existing). He has been onboard with the IUCLID project from its first start in November 2019 and is also a member of the EFSA PSN Group as well as the IUCLID subgroup dealing with further development of that tool.

Britta Michalski is a Chemist by training and has been working in the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) since 2004. She is Head of the Unit Residues and Analytical Methods in the Department Pesticides Safety. Her group is involved in MRL setting, approval and authorisation procedures for pesticides and biocides. Britta is member of OECD’s Residue Chemistry Expert Group since more than 15 years and currently co-chairs the Writing Group on the update of the Test Guideline on Storage Stability. She has been leading several EFSA projects in the area of pesticide residues and processing factors.

Dee Murnane has been working within the crop protection industry for more than 30 years, starting out in residue chemistry and latterly in human safety assessment. She is a Product Safety Global Project Lead at Syngenta focussing on new active substance projects, and leads the CropLife Europe Residue Definition Group; she is also a co-lead of the OECD Working Group on Residue Definition.

Christian Prohaska studied food and biotechnology in Vienna. He worked for public bodies dealing with the risk assessment of plant protection products before he gained a postgraduate degree in toxicology and started working at AGES in 2002.

Charlotte Trenteseaux holds a PhD in Physiology and Nutrition. After 2 years of research in the private sector she switched to regulatory affairs at ANSES in 2020. She is a Scientific Risk Assessor in the Residue and Food Safety Unit in charge of pesticide and biocide consumer risk assessment.

Jacob van Klaveren is coordinating the European funded project real-life mixtures granted under the Partnership of the Risk Assessment of Chemicals (PARC) and he is a member of the PARC Management Board responsible for innovation in regulatory risk assessment of chemicals in Europe. Since 2015, Jacob has been coordinating the EFSA-RIVM partnership on mixtures of pesticides. He coordinated the EU funded projects EuroMix and Acropolis in the period 2011-2020.