September 27, 2015 SPSFAM Meeting - Meeting Book

Stakeholder Panel on Strategic Food Analytical Methods - Chair Biography

Co‐Chair, SPSFAM Erik Konings Nestle Research Center

Erik Konings has been an active member of AOAC since 1997. He is  currently serving as a director on the Board of Directors and a  member of the Advisory Panel membership on the Advisory Panel  for the Stakeholder Panel on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals  (SPIFAN). Previous AOAC volunteer roles have included  chairmanship of the SPIFAN Working Group on Folic Acid,  membership on the AOAC Methods Committee on Food Nutrition,  and service as a General Referee for Water Soluble Vitamins. Erik  Konings started his professional career at the then called Food  Inspection Service in Maastricht, the Netherlands. Konings 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. Konings has  worked as Senior Scientific Staff Officer in the department of  Research & Development of the Food and Consumer Product Safety  Authority (VWA) in the in the Netherlands, as Scientific Officer at  the Data Collection and Exposure Unit for the European Food Safety  Authority (EFSA) in Parma, Italy, and since June 2009, in a position  in the Quality and Safety Department of the Nestlé Research Center  in Lausanne, Switzerland. Konings is convenor of a working group  on vitamins & carotenoids of the European Committee for  Standardization (CEN), a 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). In 2012 he was appointed convenor for ISO TC 34  Working Group 14 on Vitamins, carotenoids, and other nutrients.  He has (co)authored more than 30 scientific publications.