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Co‐Chair, SPSFAM
Erik Konings
Nestle Research Center
Erik Konings has been an active member of AOAC since 1997. He is
currently serving as a director on the Board of Directors and a
member of the Advisory Panel membership on the Advisory Panel
for the Stakeholder Panel on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals
(SPIFAN). 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.
Stakeholder Panel on Strategic Food Analytical Methods -
Chair Biography