AOAC SPIFAN Stakeholder Panel Meeting Book (September 7, 2019)

STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA AND ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN) Erik Konings, Ph.D., Nestlé AOAC Working Group Chair, Folate (Folic Acids) Erik Konings studied higher professional laboratory education with majors in analytical and clinical chemistry. After graduating in 1984, he started his professional career at the then called Food Inspection Service in Maastricht, the Netherlands. In 2001 he completed his PhD study “Dietary folates in human nutrition” at Maastricht University. During this study, he obtained an MSc-degree in epidemiology. He is (co)author of more than 40 scientific publications. In September 2008 he started at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma, Italy, for a secondment as Scientific Officer at the Data Collection and Exposure Unit, and from there accepted, in June 2009, a position at the Nestlé Research Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland, currently in a role as Food Safety & Analytical Sciences expert. He is active in several Standard Developing Organizations as AOAC INTERNATIONAL (Past-President), the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (Chair ISO TC 34, Working Group 14 on Vitamins, carotenoids and other nutrients), the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) (Chair CEN TC 275 Working group 9 on Vitamins and carotenoids), and the International Dairy Federation (IDF) (member Science and Programme Coordination Committee (SPCC). He participates in the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (CCMAS) as member of the Swiss delegation.

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