Sustainable Food Contact Materials

Silvia Apprich is the Head of the Bachelor and Master degree programmes in Packaging Technology and Sustainability as well as Sustainable Resource Management at the FH Campus Wien (University of Applied Sciences Vienna). She has been working at FH Campus Wien for more than 6 years as a lecturer and researcher. She completed her diploma studies in food and biotechnology at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, where she also did her PhD in the area of food chemistry. At the FH Campus Wien, she was very much involved in the conception of the Bachelor's programme in Packaging Technology and played a key role in the development of the Master's programme in Packaging Technology and Sustainability.

Martin Foe joined Aptar in 2013 as Head of Regulatory Affairs Aptar Beauty + Home EMEA, and since January 2020 he has held the position of Senior Manager and leads global regulatory affairs for both the Beauty + Home and Food + Beverage segments of the Aptar Group. Before joining Aptar, Martin Foe co-created and managed for 10 years the consulting firm Nutralis specialized in scientific and regulatory affairs in Clermont-Ferrand. He then worked as a regulatory expert in expatriation for 5 years in Belgium for the Puratos group and in the Netherlands for the Danone group. Martin Foe has chaired the Food packaging and cosmetics commission at the Elipso federation since 2017. In parallel, Martin Foe has over 14 years experience in lecturing regulatory affairs at Institut Polytechnique Lassalle Beauvais and other French universities. He worked for several years as an expert with ANVAR (now OSEO). Martin Foe is the author of numerous international publications and chapters in collective works.

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.

Thomas Gude has been the Deputy Head of SQTS, Switzerland, for over 18 years. He is heading the laboratories dealing with food and non-food analysis as well as with risk assessments.

Benedikt Hanschmann is a Chemical Engineer and has been working as a Junior Scientist in the fields of process engineering and polymer recycling at the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (IVV) since 2021.

Ioan Paraschiv is a Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager at Knoell NL in the Netherlands. He provides regulatory and technical support on authorisation of new food contact materials (FCM) substances in key markets such as EU, UK, Switzerland, USA, Canada (voluntary system), China, Japan and Mercosur, and on the registration of industrial chemicals under EU-REACH. He holds a PhD degree in Physical-Organic Chemistry from Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Lukas Prielinger has been working as a Researcher and Scientific Assistant in the Department of Packaging Technology and Resource Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna since 2020. He has background knowledge in food science, food technology and chemistry. As a project manager of the CosPaTox project, he has experience in the safety assessment of packaging materials with a focus on post-consumer recycling materials.

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 a member of the ‘German BfR Committee on Consumer Products’’.

Lionel Spack is a Senior Expert Food Contact Materials in Corporate Operation-Quality Management at Headquarter of Société des Produits Nestlé S.A in Vevey. He was previously FCM Expert within the Nestlé Quality Assurance Center (NQAC) supporting the Zone EMENA (Europe, Middle East, North Africa). Earlier he was Packaging QA specialist at the Nestlé Research Center. He is involved in international associations, e.g. in the International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry (IAEAC), Schweizerische Verpackungsinstitut-Joint Industry Group and FoodDrinkEurope.

Dieter Stapf is a Professor and holds a Chair in High Temperature Process Engineering at the KIT Faculty of Chemical Engineering and is the Head of the Institute for Technical Chemistry. With the aim of sustainable industrial production within a Circular Economy, his areas of research are thermochemical processing of waste to chemicals, of waste to energy and of biogenic energy carriers. He focusses on pyrolysis, gasification, and combustion technology research as well as on techno-economical process evaluation and energy system analysis. Dieter Stapf has over 20 years of working experience with thermochemical processing in industry and academia.

Manica Ulcnik-Krump is a Chemist and joined Interzero in 2008. She is the Managing Director of Interzero Plastics R&D in Slovenia and the Leader of Research & Development at Interseroh in Germany. She was largely responsible for the development of the recycled plastic Procyclen, which Interzero produces in the specially developed upcycling process Recycled-Resource.