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STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA AND
ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN)
Erik Konings
,
Nestlé
Working Group Chair
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 30 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 & Quality expert. He is active in several Standard Developing Organisations as AOAC
INTERNATIONAL (Past-President), ISO, CEN, and IDF, and participates in the Codex
Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (CCMAS).