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Co‐Chair, SPSFAM
Erik Konings
Nestle Research Center
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).
Stakeholder Panel on Strategic Food Analytical Methods -
Chair Biography