PFAS Meeting Book MYM 2023

Susan Genualdi, PhD Research Chemist, US FDA; WG Chair, AOAC PFAS Project

Susan Genualdi is currently a Research Chemist in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the Food and Drug Administration. Her research focuses on developing methods for the analysis of direct and indirect food additives in food and food packaging. For the last 5 years, she has focused primarily on the method development and analysis of PFAS in foods. Prior to her work at the FDA, she received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry at Oregon State University and was a postdoctoral fellow at Environment Canada.

Christina Riemenschneider, PhD Food Chemist, EURL POPs/CVUA Freiburg

Christina Riemenschneider is currently a lab leader in the pesticides and contaminants team at CVUA Frieburg and scientific expert at the EURL for pesticides in food of animal origin and the EURL for halogenated POPs in Freiburg Germany. Prior to her five years at EURL POPs and CVUA Freiburg she attended a traineeship in the pesticides department at European Foods Safety Authority (ESFA) in Parma, Italy and worked as a research scientist at Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research in Germany after obtaining her PhD in Analytical and Environmental Chemistry at Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig Germany. She also has a Master of Science and Bachelor ’ s degree in Food Chemistry

from the University of Gießen.

Giampaolo Perinello, PhD Technical Project Manager for GKA, Mérieux NutriSciences

Gaimpaolo Perinello is a senior scientist in analytical chemistry and works as a technical project manager for GKAs. He has a strong background in food testing and more than 15 years as Chemistry Lab Director at Mérieux NutriSciences Italia with expertise in food safety and food composition.