Fresh faces taking a seat on the next Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA) are Jean Louis Bresson, Barbara Burlinghame (formerly United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)), Inge Mangelsdorf and Hendrik Van Loveren.
The panel will again feature the likes of Susan Fairweather-Tait, Yolanda Sanz (current vice-chair), Daniel Tomé, Monika Neuhäuser-Berthold and Grazyna Nowicka. The departing include chairman Ambroise Martin, vice-chair John Strain, Rosalenga Marchelli and Hans Verhagen.
EFSA has not yet indicated who the chair will be after Ambroise Martin, who predicted a positive probiotic health claim opinion during his reign but failed to see that eventuate.
“We have attracted very highly qualified scientists from across Europe that will make a difference to Europe’s food safety system,” said Dr Tobin Robinson, head of EFSA’s science strategy and coordination department. “Many of the new members come from universities and research institutes, meaning that there is a growing awareness of EFSA’s work in academic circles”.
The new panel in full is:
The 2012-2015 panel was:
Full details of declarations of interest and biographies of the new panellists are here.
Aside from health claims, the panel works in areas including:
- Human nutrition
- Infant nutrition
- Human medicine
- Exposure assessment
- Food consumption, dietary surveys
- Nutrient requirements
- Nutritional epidemiology
- Food allergy and intolerance
- Toxicology
- Clinical immunology
- Nutritional biochemistry
Details of changes to other EFSA panels can be found here.