Stefanka Bratinova is an Analytical Chemist and a Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Geel. From 2004 to 2010 she worked on temporary contracts in EURL-FCM in Ispra, joined the Unit of Food Safety at JRC-Geel (former IRMM) in 2012.and returned back to EURL-FCM activities after JRC seized to operate the teams of EURL-PAHs and EURL-Mycotoxins.

Dirk F. Danneels was retired in 2015 and spent most of his career in the chemical industry, the last 25 years with the Honeywell’s “Performance Materials and Technologies” business. Since 2006 he has been leading globally all Honeywell’s REACH related activities. In 2009 he took on the role of Secretary General for the European Wax Federation.

Sarah Dubail has been a Regulatory Affairs Specialist at Sherwin Williams, Packaging coatings division, for two years. Formerly she was the Manager of the European Analytical lab of Valspar for 13 years, responsible for analysing migration from packaging coatings and providing analytical data to do risk assessments.

Konrad Grob is partially retired scientific consultant at the Official Food Control Authority of the Canton of Zurich and expert in risk assessment at the CEP Panel of EFSA and in the Bedarfsgegenständekommission of the German BfR.

Rüdiger Helling worked as Head of the Food Contact Materials and Consumer Goods Section at the Saxon State Laboratory for Public and Veterinary Health for 14 years and is member of several scientific advisory committees. In his current position as Head of Division at the Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection he is responsible for the whole diversity of not only contaminants in food.

Hedda Hillmann is a Food Chemist and has been working with ISEGA Forschungs- und Untersuchungsgesellschaft in Aschaffenburg since 2014. She is responsible for the legal assessment of different food contact materials as well as for applications for the inclusion of substances for BfR Paper-Recommendations.

Mette Holm is a Biologist and has been working in the Danish Veterinary and Food Administra¬tion since 2006. She is a Senior Scientific Adviser and has been working with chemical substances in food since 2010, especially migration from FCM.

Harald Kaeb is a Chemist and Founder and Owner of narocon InnovationConsulting focused on biobased chemistry and plastics. From 1999 to 2009 he had chaired the Board of the European Bioplastics Industry Association.

Edward Kosior has been active as an innovator in polymer technology for the past 40 years both within universities, recycling enterprises and as Founder and Managing Director of Nextek. He is an Honorary Professor at Brunel University London. He has been active in developing effective technical solutions for the recycling of post-consumer polymers especially back to food grade applications as well as designing full scale recycling operations.

Oliver Kunder a Food Chemist and has been working as the Head of Quality Assurance and Food Law at the Ostfriesische Tee Gesellschaft since 2013. His main focus is on risk assessment and management, supplier and process auditing as well as food law. He is a member of national and European Trade Associations.

Susanne Kühn is a Chemist and was Scientific Assistant at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). Since 2017 she has been working as Laboratory Manager at the Institut Kirchhoff Berlin. Her field of expertise is the contaminants analysis in food stuffs, especially of mineral oil hydrocarbons.

Alfonso Lampen is the Head of the Department Food Safety at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin and a Professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine Hannover.

Peter K.T. Oldring is a Regulatory Affairs Manager at Sherwin Williams, based in UK and is actively involved in activities to support the can coating business.

Ivonne Rietjens is Professor in Toxicology. She is the Chair of the Division of Toxicology at the Department of Agrotechnology and Food Science at Wageningen University and a member of many national and international advisory committees.

Benoît Schilter is a Biogist and the Head of the Food Safety Research Department at Nestlé Research Center in Lausanne. He joined the Nestlé Research Center as Head of Molecular Toxicology and has more than 25 years of experience in toxicology and risk assessment and contributed to over 35 international scientific expert groups and task forces.

Dieter Schrenk has been a Professor for Food Chemistry and Environmental Toxicology at the University of Kaiserslautern since 1996. In 2005 he took on the full professorship for Food Chemistry and Toxicology. He joined the EFSA CONTAM Panel in 2003. Since 2018 he has been the Chair of this panel.

Bastiaan Schupp works since mid-2011 as legislative officer on food contact materials in DG Health and Food Safety of the European Commission. His main responsibly is the implementation of the specific measures on food contact materials presently in force, with a specific focus on the framework Regulation, recycled plastics, and ceramic food contact materials.

Thomas Simat has been a Professor and the Chair of Food Science and FCM at the Technische Universität Dresden with research on FCM since 2003. He is a member of the ‘German BfR Committee on Consumer Products’ and the ‘GDCh Working Group Consumer Products’.

Lionel Spack is a Senior Expert Food Contact Materials in the Nestlé Quality Assurance Center (NQAC) supporting the Zone EMENA (Europe, Middle East, North Africa). Earlier he was Packaging QA specialist at the Nestlé Research Center. He is involved in ILSI, Schweizerische Verpackungsinstitut-Joint Industry Group, FoodDrinkEurope-Printing Inks Joint Task Force.

Els Van Hoeck is an Analytical Chemist and started to work at Sciensano in Brussels in 2009. Since 2018 she has been working as Head of Service a.i. of the service ‘organic contaminants and additives’. She is mostly involved in scientific research related to the safety of food contact materials.

Katharina Volk has been Junior Scientific Officer within the FCM team of EFSA since 2015.