External Advisory Board

• scientists from concerned disciplines
• industrialists of the agro-food sector
• experts of the Commission
• food regulatory bodies
• representatives of ETP Food for Life

• Harmen Hofstra , Secretary General of  SAFE Consortium, representative of ETP Food for Life,Belgium
• Diassina Di Maggio , Director of APRE, Agency for the Promotion of European Research, Italy
• Roland Poms,  Chairman of the MoniQA FP6 Network of Excellence, Austria
• Michele Suman , Head of Food Safety Research Unit, Barilla G. & R F.lli SpA, Italy
• Frans Verstraete , Chair of the Expert Committee “Agricultural Contaminants”,  DG SANCO; Health and Consumer Protection Directorate - General, European Commission, Belgium
• John Leslie , Professor and Department Head of  Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, USA
• Deepak Bhatnagar , Food and Feed Safety Research, Research Leader, United States Department of Agriculture, USA
• Jörg Stroka , JRC Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM), Belgium.

• to provide an external perspective on the project
• to recommend effective actions to reach the goals of the project