Profile

Jeg arbejder med afsmitning af kemiske stoffer fra fødevarekontaktmaterialer og bidrager til risikovurdering af disse. Fødevarer bringes i kontakt med mange forskellige materialetyper fra produktionsprocessen i fødevareindustrien, i forbindelse med indpakning og ved tilberedning og anvendelse hos forbrugerne.

Plast er det mest anvendte materiale men også mange andre materialer såsom pap, papir, gummi, silikone, overfladebehandlingsmidler, lime og trykfarver osv. anvendes i kontakt med fødevarer. Materialerne fremstilles ud fra hundredvis af forskellige kemiske stoffer, og der er risiko for at disse afgives til fødevarerne under anvendelsen ved forskellige temperaturer og tider.

Jeg undersøger og rådgiver om afsmitning af kemiske stoffer fra fødevarekontaktmaterialer. Resultaterne danner baggrund for, dels at vurdere befolkningens indtag af de pågældende stoffer, herunder risikovurdering, og dels om eventuelt gældende grænseværdier for de enkelte stoffer er overholdt.

Other information

Organiser and member of the in house course: Competency development in scientific advise at DTU Food, 2016-17

Chairman of the Danish Committee on test methods for food contact materials at Danish Standards 1996-2008.

Teacher at DTU master cource on food contact materials, 2010-2016

Coordinator and tutor on courses on food contact materials for the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, 2009.

Teacher in courses on food contact materials for industry and technological institutes since 2000.

Member of Council of Europe (COE) working group on paper and board for food contact 2017-

Member of EFSA FIP network for the cooperation and harmonisation of risk assessment of food contact materials, 2014-

Organiser of the EU Parliament work shop: Food contact materials- how to ensure safety and technological innovation in the future, Brussel 2016

Coordinator and Tutor on EU Better training for safer food, Food Contact Materials, 2012-13

Tutor at EU Better training for safer food, Food Contact Materials, 2009

National member ofthe European Committee for Standardization, CEN, 194/SC1 and working groups: “General chemical methods of test for materials intended to come into contact with food”,1996-2010

Member of Nordic project group on fluorinated substances, Nordic Council of Ministers, 2012.

Member of Nordic project on printing inks for food packaging materials and development of a guide for industry. Nordic Council of Ministers, 2011-12.

Member of EU Task Force on revision of the technical part of the EU regulation on food contact materials of plastic (European plastics implementing measure (PIM)), 2007-2009.

Member of EU meetings on evaluation on chemical migration from gaskets in lids, 2005.

Member of EU task Force on BADGE and related compounds in lacquers, 1998.

Member of a Nordic project on lacquers in cans, Nordic Council of Ministers, 1998

Ad hoc member in different technical EU working groups on trace elements 1989-1995

Research areas

I perform scientific advice and research within food safety related to migration of chemical substances from food contact materials (FCM). The work focus on evaluation of migrating substances from different materials with the aim to assess the human exposure of these chemials as part of the risk assessment. 

The work includes:

Running of national projects on chemical food safety of food contact materials in cooperation with the National Food Administration and with the Danish EPA

Given scientific scietific advice within risk assessment and chemical food safety of food contact materials to national bodies and industry 

Traning of university students and in EU BTSF programmes

Membership of EFSA Scientific Network on food contact materials (FIP)  

Publication of reports and scientific papers