This conference is aiming to give you an insight into PFAS in Food, Packaging and the Environment. You will be familiarised with the current regulatory developments, analytical challenges, toxicological findings, and practical approaches to risk assessment, substitution and mitigation of PFAS along the food chain and in the wider environment.
On 20 August 2025, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) published an updated REACH proposal to restrict PFAS, including a comprehensive ban on their use in packaging materials for food contact and consumer applications. This measure is designed to better protect human health and the environment.
Contaminants such as PFAS are strictly regulated in the EU, and their risk management and toxicological assessment continue to present challenges across the food and packaging sectors, as well as for participants from the plant protection industry.
This online conference brings together leading experts and professionals from the food and beverage industry, packaging sector, plant protection industry, food trade, laboratories, research institutes, authorities, and professional associations to discuss the latest developments in PFAS analysis, regulation, toxicology, and risk management.
The conference brings together experts and decision-makers from across the food supply chain who are dealing with the analytical, regulatory, toxicological and practical aspects of PFAS.
Groups that should take part: Regulatory, scientific, quality assurance, analytical, product safety and legal professionals who want to stay up to date on the latest developments affecting the food, packaging and environmental sectors in Europe.
Sectors that should take part: Food and drink industry, packaging industry, plant protection industry, food trade, food inspection offices, laboratories, professional associations
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Name
Company
Representative of ANSES - French Agency for Food, Environment and Occupational Health and Safety, France
Klaus Abraham
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Germany
Klaus Abraham is a Senior Toxicologist at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). He is head of the unit \"Nutritional Risks and Biomarkers\". The group's research focuses on studies in humans with regard to kinetics, internal exposure and toxicology.
morelessLuke K. Ackerman
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), USA
Frauke Averbeck
Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Germany
Frauke Averbeck is working in the Unit “Evaluation of Chemicals and Risk Management” at the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA) in Dortmund/Germany. Amongst other tasks in the context of the REACH Regulation she is coordinating the German authorities’ work as well as co-leading, together with her Dutch colleagues, the common efforts of the five Member States proposing a comprehensive ban of PFASs under the REACH Regulation.
morelessRuna S. Boeddinghaus
Agricultural Technology Centre Augustenberg (LTZ), Germany
Thierry Delatour
Nestlé Research, Switzerland
Alexander Eckhardt
Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Alexander Eckhardt is a Biologist and regulatory scientist at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) in Bad Elster/Germany in the sub-department “Toxicology of Drinking Water and Swimming Pool Water”. Since 2015 he has been a specialist toxicologist of the DGPT and European Registered Toxicologist. As a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on Water Quality and Health (WQTAG), he is involved in updating the Guidelines for Drinking-Water Quality. He is also a member of the Working Group Toxicology of PFAS of the German Drinking Water Commission.
morelessNicola Forrer
Cantonal Laboratory Tessin, Switzerland
Thomas Gude
Independent Consultant, Switzerland
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.
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Ron Hoogenboom
Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), The Netherlands
Ron Hoogenboom is the Assistant Programme Leader Food Contaminants at Wageningen Food Safety Research, dealing with environmental contaminants, pesticides and toxins from moulds, algae and plants. Since 2012 he has been a member of the EFSA CONTAM Panel and was the vice-chair of the WG on PFAS.
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Max Schneider
PTS Institut für Fasern und Papier, Germany
Max Schneider studied environmental chemistry and is currently working as a Project Manager in the FCM (Food Contact Materials Team) team at PTS – Institut für Fasern & Papier in Heidenau, Germany. For the last ten years he took care of the GC laboratory in Heidenau, dealt with customers’ requests of all kind as well as working on different research projects in the field of food contact materials.
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Thomas Simat
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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’’.
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Veerle Vanheusden
European Commission, Belgium
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.
morelessParticipation Fee: € 895.00 plus VAT.
The registration fee includes the following benefits:
Representatives of an authority or a public university are therefore eligible for a reduced fee of € 595.00 plus VAT per person (please provide evidence). The reduced fee cannot be combined with other rebates.
Group Reductions
For joint bookings received from one company we grant a 15% discount from the third participant onwards.
Terms of Cancellation / Book without Risk
You can cancel your participation in our online events free of charge and without giving reasons in writing up to 1 week before the start of the event. In the case of later cancellations and non-login to the online event, no participation fees can be refunded.
In this case, however, you will receive access to the documentation after the event.
You can name a substitute participant free of charge at any time.
Would you have liked to attend this event, but cannot spare the time?
For the price of 295,00 € plus VAT you can order a complete set of event documentation. A few days after the event you will receive the access data for the restricted download section of our Website. There you will find all presentations (subject to the approval of our speakers) as pdf-files.
Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design
+49 231 75896-82
smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de
Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design
+49 231 75896-82
smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de
Sabine Mummenbrauer
Programme and conceptual design
+49 231 75896-82
smummenbrauer@akademie-fresenius.de
Jennifer Zerth
Organisation and participant management
+49 231 75896-79
jzerth@akademie-fresenius.de
Jennifer Zerth
Organisation and participant management
+49 231 75896-79
jzerth@akademie-fresenius.de
Present your Company at the Event.
You can personally present your products and services directly to your specified target group. We are happy to provide you with further information on our range of available options – from displaying company information at the reception counter to presenting your company with an exhibition stand.
We would be pleased to assist you personally:
Monika Stratmann
Phone: +49 231 75896-48
info@akademie-fresenius.de
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Katharina Geraridis
Phone: +49 231 75896-67
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