Biography:
Dr Ana M Rincon has been a Senior Scientific Officer of the Food Ingredients and Packaging (FIP) Unit of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for more than seventeen years. She has a strong knowledge on risk assessment, EU food law and EU regulatory framework. In her role in EFSA, she is coordinator of the EFSA Panel on Food Additives and Flavourings (FAF) dealing with the re-evaluation of food additives or the evaluation of substances to be authorised as food additives in the EU. Dr Rincon holds a PhD in chemistry, in the area of supramolecular chemistry from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. She has peer-reviewed papers in various areas of chemistry related research and contributed to several EFSA opinions. In the last years she has been involved in the risk assessment of substances containing nanoparticles.
Title : Regulatory safety assessment in the European Union of food additives containing nanoparticles