AOAC SPIFAN Meeting Book 9-26-15

STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON INFANT FORMULA AND ADULT NUTRITIONALS (SPIFAN) (AOAC/ISO COOPERATIVE)

Erik Konings, Nestlé SPIFAN Working Group Chair, Folic Acid Chair, ISO/TC 34/WG 14 – Vitamins, Carotenoids and Other Nutrients

Erik Konings was born in the Netherlands. After completing Secondary school in 1977, he 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. During 1989 to 1996 he 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. Since 1998 he was appointed as Senior Scientific Staff Officer at the department Research & Development of the Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (VWA) in the Netherlands. He was (co)author of more than 30 scientific publications. In 1997 he became a member of the Methods Committee on Food Nutrition of AOAC International and since 2001 he is convenor of a working group on vitamins & carotenoids of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). 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 as Project Manager at the Quality and Safety Department of Nestlé Research Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. Per September 2010 he was appointed as Group Manager of the Method Management Group at the Quality and Safety Department of Nestlé Research Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. Since 2009 he is 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) since 2010.