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Kevin Kubachka, FDA - Forensic Chemistry Center

In 2003, Dr. Kevin Kubachka received his B.S. degree in forensic chemistry from the Eastern Kentucky University. He then continued his education at the University of Cincinnati where he received his Ph.D. in chemistry (area of analytical chemistry) in 2007. Following graduate school, he was a federal post- doctoral researcher at the USEPA. After 16 months at the USEPA, he joined FDA’s Forensic Chemistry Center (FCC) as a chemist, where he has worked since September of 2008. At the FCC, Dr. Kubachka has focused his efforts on elemental analysis and

speciation as well as isotope ratio mass spectrometry. His primary area of expertise is elemental analysis, with emphasis on elemental speciation of arsenic using liquid chromatography interfaced with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LC-ICP-MS). He has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and has given numerous invited presentations on these topics. Dr. Kubachka has been an instructor and course organizer for several FDA training courses. He is currently an AOAC Metals group co-chair and chair of the Metals Expert Review Panel.

Stéphane Dubascoux, Nestle Stéphane Dubascoux obtained his PhD (Analytical Chemistry and Environment) in 2007 at the LCABIE (University of Pau - France). He was teaching assistant at the University of Pau from 2007 to 2009. He was then research engineer & responsible of an analytical platform at Montpellier SupAgro (France) from

2009 to 2012. Since 2012, he is working at Nestlé Research in Lausanne (Switzerland), leading since 2017 the Minerals and Metals group within the Nestlé Institute of Food Safety and Analytical Sciences. His main topics are inorganic analytical chemistry (including speciation) applied on various food and biological matrices and hyphenated techniques.

Christopher Smith, The Coca-Cola Company Christopher Smith is a director in the quality and post-commercialization areas at the corporate laboratory of Coca-Cola in Atlanta, GA. In his team at Coca-Cola headquarters they employ a wide range of analytical techniques such as ICP-MS/MS, UHPLC-MS/MS, GC-MS/MS, microRaman, and ion chromatography. Christopher has been with The Coca-Cola Company for 19 years. He has authored publications on diverse topics such

as and biomonitoring/toxicology. Dr. Smith received his B.S. in Chemistry from Drake University and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry in the NIST JILA laboratories at the University of Colorado, Boulder. atomic physics, mass spectrometry, agricultural residue analysis