Dietary Risk Assessment for Biocides

Christian Brieden is Regulatory Affairs Manager and the Team Lead Toxicology Europe at Ecolab. Prior to this current position he managed Ecolab’s REACH Team for 2 years, and has worked as a regulatory toxicologist for over nine years, bringing along a wealth of experience in this area.

Kathrin Gottlob is a Food Chemist. Since 2007 she has been working at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) evaluating biocide residues in food. She is a member of the ad-hoc working group ARTFood (Assessment of Residue Transfer to Food) which supports the Biocidal Products Committee with issues related to human exposure to biocides through food.

Judit Janossy has worked as a Senior Scientific Officer at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for over 6 years. She has previously worked as Scientific Officer at the European Chemicals Agency as well as collecting experience as a Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Both positions entailed working with biocides, including dietary risk assessment.

Saskia Klutzny is a biotechnologist and worked in the pharmaceutical research industry before joining the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in 2018. As a Senior Scientific Officer she is evaluating the residue behaviour of biocides and is assessing the risk of consumers to biocide residues in food. She is a member of the BPC ad-hoc working group ARTFood (Assessment of Residue Transfer to Food) and is working on the advancement of assessment concepts and exposure models.

Martin Löhrke is the General Manager of LOEHRKE GmbH in Germany. As independently operating technology company, Loehrke provides service for process hygiene and process technology for the beverage and food industry. Martin Löhrke thus brings along a wealth of experience with cleaning and hygiene processes as well as experience with challenges and problems faced by the industry.

Paschalina Papadaki is currently Scientific Officer in ECHA’s Biocides Unit where she is involved in the peer review programme of active substances and the union authorisation of biocidal products. She has also worked in ECHA's REACH Evaluation Unit. She has previously held positions at the Department of Pesticides, Control and Phytopharmacy of Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Greece and at Battelle UK.

Hermine Reich has been working at EFSA since 2006. As Lead Senior Scientific Officer in the Unit on Pesticide Residues she is responsible for developing and coordinating cross-cutting scientific topics related to EFSA’s risk assessment activities under Regulation (EC) No 396/2005, in particular in the field of dietary risk assessment, assessment of MRL applications, and development of risk assessment methodologies.

Marion REY joined ANSES in 2010 to work on consumer safety in the field of plant protection products and biocides and has been deputy head of Residues and Food Safety Unit of the regulated products assessment department since 2020. She is a member of the BPC ad-hoc working group ARTFood (Assessment of Residue Transfer to Food) since its establishment in 2014.

Fabien Rouessay spent about 15 years in the chemical industry and more specifically in the biocidal regulation area before joing Redebel Regulatory Affairs five years ago. Here he is a project and consortium manager: In addition to providing support during the whole dossier preparation process, he assists applicants in defending their dossiers throughout assessment challenging period also by representing them at meetings with competent authorities.

Leticia Ungaretti Haberbeck, is an experienced scientist in the Food Microbiology and Regulatory Affairs areas. She currently works as Senior Regulatory Specialist at Ecolab managing different BPR dossiers and has previously worked as Regulatory Affairs Manager for biocides at Procter & Gamble as well as Quality and Microbiology Specialist at Nestlé Waters Research Centre.