DIE AKADEMIE FRESENIUS Where Experts Meet!

19 and 20 November 2020 in Mainz/Germany

Contaminants and Residues in Food

13th International Akademie Fresenius Conference

The Experts

Jan Baele European Commission | Katleen Baert European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Alan R. Boobis Imperial College London | Neil Buck General Mills | Birgit Christall Food Federation Germany | Benedict Cramer University of Münster | Peter Fürst Münster | Karma Fussell Nestlé | Bettina Grasl-Kraupp Medical University of Vienna | Rüdiger Helling Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection | Ron Hoogenboom Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR) | Luisa Ramos Bordajandi European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Dieter Schrenk University of Kaiserslautern | Tanja Schwerdtle German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) | Holger Sieg German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) | Richard Stadler Nestlé | Hans Steinkellner European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Michele Suman Barilla | Angelika Tritscher Danone | Frans Verstraete European Commission

Highlights

• European Community policy on contaminants in foodstuff s

• European Commission on RASFF and AAC• Recent developments at JMPR and

JECFA (veterinary drugs)• Risk, regulation and compliance –

experience of the EU contaminant paradigm

• Endocrine activities – are they an issue in food?

• EFSA’s recent assessments of aflatoxins and ochratoxin A

• Ochratoxin A and 2’R Ochratoxin A: New insights

• EFSA’s assessment of glycoalkaloids and chlorinated paraffins

• THC and cannabinoids – is there a concern?• Mycotoxins – predicting levels and

controlling storage• Multiple source substances• EFSA’s exposure and risk assessment

of PFAS• Update on microplastics and

nanoplastics• Update on benchmark levels for

MOSH/MOAH• Process contaminants and technology

Thursday, 19 November 2020

8.30 Registration and coffee and tea

9.00 Welcome address by Akademie Fresenius and the Chair

Peter Fürst, Münster, Germany

Europe and worldwide – science, policy, practice9.10 Recent and future developments of EU legislation in the field of process and environmental contaminants

Frans Verstraete, European Commission, Belgium

9.40 Recent developments at JMPR and JECFA (veterinary drugs)

Alan R. Boobis, Imperial College London, UK

10.05 RASFF and AAC – two EU tools for information exchange on health risks and food fraud

Jan Baele, European Commission, Belgium

10.30 Panel discussion 11.00 Coffee and tea break

11.30 Risk, regulation and compliance – experience of the EU contaminant paradigm

Neil Buck, General Mills, Switzerland

Process contaminants11.55 Process contaminants and technology

Richard Stadler, Nestlé, Switzerland

The ProgrammeResidues and environmental contaminants12.20 Endocrine activities – are they an issue in food?

Karma Fussell, Nestlé, Switzerland

12.45 Panel discussion 13.15 Lunch

14.45 EFSA’s recent assessment of chlorinated paraffins in the food chain

Luisa Ramos Bordajandi, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Italy

15.10 Multiple source substances and Regulation (EC) No 396/2005

• Problems for food business operators in practice: Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 sets MRLs for pesticide residues in food but according to the view of authorities, the MRLs shall apply independent from the source of the substance

• Examples of such multiple source substances• Proposals for solutions

Birgit Christall, Food Federation Germany, Germany

15.35 EFSA’s exposure assessment of PFAS

Ron Hoogenboom, Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), The Netherlands

16.00 EFSA’s risk assessment of PFAS

Tanja Schwerdtle, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Germany

16.25 Panel discussion 16.55 Coffee and tea break

17.25 Update on micro- and nanoplastics: Oral toxicology and risk assessment

• Occurrence, detection and quantification methods• Uptake and crossing of microplastics through the

intestinal barrier• In vitro cellular systems and toxicological analysis• Approaches for risk assessment

Holger Sieg, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Germany

17.50 Update on benchmark levels for MOSH/MOAH

Rüdiger Helling, Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection, Germany

+++ Current information +++ You are asking yourself, whether to book this conference right now? We are monitoring the situation carefully and regularly, and the health and safety of our speakers, participants and staff is our number one priority.

If the circumstances do not allow for an on-site meeting, we will change the conference into a virtual meeting.

18.15 Mineral oil – analytical challenges and gaps in toxicological knowledge

Angelika Tritscher, Danone, The Netherlands

18.40 Panel discussion 19.10 End of the first conference day and dinner

19.30 Evening event

Continue the networking at the close of the first conference day and enjoy a fine-dining experience with a welcome drink, 3-course meal, coffee and wine.

Friday, 20 November 2020

8.40 Welcoming speech by the Chair

Dieter Schrenk, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

8.50 Recent and future developments of EU legislation in the field of agricultural contaminants

Frans Verstraete, European Commission, Belgium

Secondary plant components9.30 Glycoalkaloids in food

Bettina Grasl-Kraupp, Medical University of Vienna, Austria

9.55 THC and cannabinoids – is there a concern? Challenges in analytics

Peter Fürst, Münster, Germany

10.20 Panel discussion 11.00 Coffee and tea break

Mycotoxins11.35 EFSA’s recent assessment of ochratoxin A

Hans Steinkellner, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Italy

12.00 EFSA’s recent assessments of aflatoxins

Katleen Baert, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Italy

12.25 Ochratoxin A and 2’R Ochratoxin A: New insights into occurrence, metabolism and metabolite kinetics

Benedikt Cramer, University of Münster, Germany

12.50 Post-harvest strategies to predict-control- mitigate mycotoxins in the cereals chain

Michele Suman, Barilla, Italy

13.15 Panel discussion 14.00 Lunch and end of the conference

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The ExpertsJan Baele is the RASFF Head of Sector and part of the European Commission DG SANTE Unit responsible for coordi-nating and managing the RASFF system across EU countries. In 2018 he and RASFF teams across the EU dealt with about 4,000 alerts and notifications.

Katleen Baert is a Bio-engineer in chemis-try and has been a Scientific Officer in the BIOCONTAM Unit of EFSA since 2010. Before joining EFSA she worked for the Belgian Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain as a Risk Assessor for biological and chemical hazards.

Alan R. Boobis retired from his chair at Imperial College London in June 2017, and is now Emeritus Professor of Toxicology at the College. He has been a member of the

EFSA PPR Panel and the Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain. He has been a member/Chair of JMPR and JECFA (veterinary drugs) for approx. 20 years.

Neil Buck is a Corporate Toxicologist for General Mills. He spends most of his time on innovation of products and production processes and in managing technical

regulatory affairs. Neil has spent more than 20 years in industry.

Birgit Christall is a Food Chemist and has a long history as expert in contaminants and especially pesticide residues in food. She worked in different private laboratories, for

authorities and the baby food industry. In 2010 she joined the Food Federation Germany (former BLL).

Benedikt Cramer is working at the Institute of Food Chemistry at the University of Münster as the Head of the Service Unit “Instrumental analysis and spectroscopy”.

Peter Fürst retired from the Chemical and Veterinary Analytical Institute Münsterland-Emscher- Lippe board in 2019 and now works at the University of Münster as

a Honorary Professor. He joined the EFSA CONTAM Panel from 2006 to 2015 and was also Vice-Chair. Since last year he has been a member of the EFSA FAF Panel.

Karma Fussell is a Toxicologist and Senior Specialist in Chemical Food Safety at Nestlé with expertise in developmental and reproductive toxicology and endocrine disruption measured in vivo and in vitro. She joined Nestlé in 2014 after concluding a Post-Doc begun in 2011 at BASF.

Bettina Grasl-Kraupp is a Professor and a European Registered Toxicologist and leads the Research Unit “Chemical safety and cancer prevention” at the Institute for Cancer

Research of the Medical University of Vienna. Since 2014 she has been a member of the EFSA CONTAM Panel and is the Chair of the WG on glycoalkaloids.

Rüdiger Helling worked as the Head of the Food Contact Materials and Consumer Goods Section at the Saxon State Laboratory for Public and Veterinary Health for 14 years. In

his current position as the 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.

Ron Hoogenboom is the Assistant Programme Leader Food Contaminants at Wageningen Food Safety Research, dealing with environmental contaminants, pesticides

and toxins from moulds, algae and plants. Since 2012 he has been a member of the EFSA CONTAM Panel and is the Vice-Chair of the WG on PFAS.

Luisa Ramos Bordajandi is a Scientist focused on the development of multi- dimensional analytical techniques for the analysis of contaminants in food. In 2008, she joined EFSA and acts since then as a Scientific Officer within the BIOCONTAM Unit.

Dieter Schrenk has been a Professor for Food Chemistry and Environmental Toxi- cology at the University of Kaiserslautern since 1996. In 2005 he took on the full professorship

for Food Chemistry and Toxicology.

Tanja Schwerdtle is a Food Chemist and has been a Full Professor for Food Chemistry at the University of Münster since 2008 and at the University of Potsdam’s

Institute of Nutritional Science since 2013. Since March 2020 she has been the Vice President of the German BfR in Berlin.

Holger Sieg is a Biochemist and has been the Head of the Junior Research Group Nanotoxicology based in the Food Safety Department at the German BfR in Berlin

since 2017. The group conducts research concerning the uptake and effects of orally ingested nanomaterials on the human body.

Richard Stadler is the Head of the Institute for Food Safety & Analytical Science in Lausanne. Richard has held several research and quality management positions

within Nestlé. He is also the Chairman of the FoodDrinkEurope contaminants expert group.

Hans Steinkellner has been a Senior Scientific Officer (Toxicologist) in the BIOCONTAM Unit of EFSA in Parma since 2014. From 2007 to 2014 he was a Scientific

Officer in the Pesticide Unit. Before joining EFSA he worked for the European Chemicals Bureau of the JRC.

Michele Suman is the Head of the Food Safety & Authenticity Research Unit at Barilla, working in an inter- national context on research projects. He is the Chair of the Italian

National Normative Organisation (UNI) Food Authenticity Working Group.

Angelika Tritscher has been the Global Food Safety Director for Danone’s Specialised Nutrition Division since 2019, assuring the safety of the products in the early life and medical

nutrition business. Before she was the WHO’s Risk Assessment and Management Coordinator for its Food Safety and Zoonoses Department.

Frans Verstraete works at the European Commission in the Direction General SANTE and is responsible for legislation on contaminants.

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