SPIFAN Stakeholder Panel (September 23, 2017)

STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA AND ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN)

Marcel de Vreeze, NEN–Netherlands Standardization Institute and ISO

Marcel de Vreeze works as a standardization consultant at the department AgoFood & Consumer of NEN, the Netherlands Standardization Institute. NEN is a full member of CEN (European Standardization Organization) and ISO (International Standardization Organization). Since end 2014, Marcel holds the secretariats of the CEN Technical Committee CEN/TC 302 and the ISO Technical Subcommittee ISO/TC 34/SC 5 on Milk and Milk products.

The latter closely cooperates with IDF in the joint publication of International Standards with methods of analysis and sampling for milk and milk products, and with AOAC-SPIFAN. He is member of the Chairman Advisory Group (CAG) of ISO/TC 34 on Food Products. Marcel holds the secretariat of the ISO Working Group ISO/TC 34/WG 14 – 'Vitamins, carotenoids and other nutrients'. WG 14 is active in preparing ISO standards on methods of analysis for several nutrients relevant for infant formula and adult nutrition. This work is done in close cooperation with AOAC-SPIFAN. At CEN (European) level, he holds the secretariat of a Working Group on process contaminants. This group recently finalized a project mandated by the European Commission, resulting in the publication of nine new European standards on several process contaminants in food, amongst them standardized methods of analysis for PAHs, acrylamide, benzene, mineral oil in vegetable oil, melamine and 3-MCPD. At national level, he coordinates the Dutch input in the ISO standard on food safety management systems (ISO 22000), which forms the basis of the FSSC 22000 food safety management certification scheme. Related to ISO 22000, The Netherlands recently initiated a new international project with prerequisites on storage & distribution in the supply chain. Since several years, he is member of the board of AOAC Low Lands, the Low Lands section of AOAC INTERNATIONAL.

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