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INTERNATIONAL STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON ALTERNATIVE
METHODS (ISPAM)
Marina Torres Rodriguez
, Ph.D.
LATU
Marina was born in Montevideo Uruguay. Her Bachelor Degree is in
Chemistry and her Pharmaceutical Chemist Degree were obtained
from Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay. She has a
postgraduate studies in Analytical Chemistry at Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University, USA and postgraduate studies in Dairy
Technology and Dairy Products at Universidad Católica del Uruguay.
She has been working at Technological Laboratory of Uruguay-LATU,
since 1992 in Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Department. Her primary
responsibilities include method development and validation of new analytical methods in food
and environmental samples. She is also responsible for the Department Quality System. She
worked as an auditor at Uruguayan Accreditation Service-OUA.
Before LATU, she worked at Organic Department Faculty of Chemistry, Universidad de la
República Oriental del Uruguay and at Squibb Laboratories.
She is a member of AOAC INTERNATIONAL since 2006 and a member of the Latin America and
Caribbean Section since 2008. She is sub-coordinator of Uruguayan Technical Subcommittee of
Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU).