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ERIK KONINGS, NESTLE
CHAIR, AOAC STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON STRATEGIC FOOD ANALYTICAL METHODS
Erik Konings has been an active member of AOAC since 1997. He is currently
serving as a director on the Board of Directors and President of AOAC
INTERNATIONAL. Previous AOAC volunteer roles have included chairmanship
of the SPIFAN Working Group on Folic Acid, membership on the AOAC
Methods Committee on Food Nutrition, and service as a General Referee for
Water Soluble Vitamins. Erik Konings started his professional career at the
then called Food Inspection Service in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Konings was involved with
the development of analytical methods for the analysis of vitamins in food and food products.
In 1996 he started his PhD study “Dietary folates in human nutrition” in collaboration with the
departments of Human Biology and Epidemiology of Maastricht University. During this study,
which he completed in 2001, he obtained a MSc‐degree in epidemiology. Konings has worked
as Senior Scientific Staff Officer in the department of Research & Development of the Food and
Consumer Product Safety Authority (VWA) in the in the Netherlands, as Scientific Officer at the
Data Collection and Exposure Unit for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma,
Italy, and since June 2009, in a position in the Quality and Safety Department of the Nestlé
Research Center in Lausanne, Switzerland. Konings is convenor of a working group on vitamins
& carotenoids of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), a member of the
International Dairy Federation (IDF), Standing Committee Analytical Methods for Additives and
Contaminants, and participates in Codex Committee for Methods of Analysis and Sampling
(CCMAS). In 2012 he was appointed convenor for ISO TC 34 Working Group 14 on Vitamins,
carotenoids, and other nutrients. He has (co)authored more than 30 scientific publications.