ISPAM Meeting Book 3-15-16

INTERNATIONAL STAKEHOLDER PANEL ON ALTERNATIVE METHODS (ISPAM)

Marina Torres Rodriguez , Ph.D. LATU

Marina was born in Montevideo Uruguay. Her Bachelor Degree is in Chemistry and her Pharmaceutical Chemist Degree were obtained from Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay. She has a postgraduate studies in Analytical Chemistry at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA and postgraduate studies in Dairy Technology and Dairy Products at Universidad Católica del Uruguay.

She has been working at Technological Laboratory of Uruguay-LATU, since 1992 in Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Department. Her primary responsibilities include method development and validation of new analytical methods in food and environmental samples. She is also responsible for the Department Quality System. She worked as an auditor at Uruguayan Accreditation Service-OUA.

Before LATU, she worked at Organic Department Faculty of Chemistry, Universidad de la República Oriental del Uruguay and at Squibb Laboratories.

She is a member of AOAC INTERNATIONAL since 2006 and a member of the Latin America and Caribbean Section since 2008. She is sub-coordinator of Uruguayan Technical Subcommittee of Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU).