The members of the Scientific Committees listed hereunder can be contacted through the Secretariat of each Committee, whose whereabouts figure on this page.

Alphabetical list of the scientists appointed by the Commission as members of the Scientific Committee set up by Decision 97/579/EC of 23 July 1997.

Jan Alexander

Dr, Chief Medical Officer, Deputy Director, Folkehelsa, Oslo (Norge)

Susan M. Barlow

Dr, Consultant to the Medical Research Council, Institute for Environment and Health, (United Kingdom) - 1. Vice-Chair of the Committee

Angelo Carere

Professor, Director, Laboratorio di Tossicologia Comparata ed Ecotossicologia, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Roma (Italia)

Karl-Heinz Engel

Professor, Allgemeine Lebensmitteltechnologie , Technische Universität München, Freising-Weihenstephan (Deutschland)

Albert Flynn

Associate Professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Department of Food Science and Technology, University College Cork (Ireland)

Werner Grunow

Dr, Berlin (Deutschland)

Timo Hirvi

Professor, Head of Department, Kemian Osasto, Eläinlääkintä- Ja Elintarvikelaitos (EELA), Helsinki (Suomi)

Ada G.A.C. Knaap

Dr., Senior Researcher, Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, Bilthoven (Nederland) - Chair of the Committee

Berthold Koletzko

Professor of Paediatrics, Kinderklinik und Kinderpoliklinik, Dr. von Haunersches Kinderspital, Universität München, München (Deutschland)

John Christian Larsen

Dr, Head of Department, Institut for Fødevaresikkerhed og Toksikologi, Søborg (Danmark)

Sven E. Lindgren

Professor (Mikrobiologi med inriktning pa livsmedel och hygien, Bioteknik), Statens Livsmedelverk, Uppsala (Sverige)

Bevan Moseley

Professor, Reading (United Kingdom)

Andreu Palou

Professor, Director, Departament de Biologia Fonamental i Ciències de la Salut, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Majorca (España) - 2. Vice-Chair of the Committee

Wim H.M. Saris

Professor, Scientific Director, Onderzoeksinstituut NUTRIM, Vakgroep Humane Biologie, Universiteit van Maastricht, Maastricht (Nederland)

Josef Schlatter

Dr., Head of Food Toxicology Section, Food Science Division, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Zürich (Switzerland)

Paul P. Tobback

Prof. Em. Dr. ir., Departement Levensmiddelen en Microbiële Technologie, Faculteit Landbouwkundige en Toegepaste Biologische, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee (België)

Philippe Verger

Dr., Direction Scientifique "Nutrition Humaine et Sécurité Alimentaire", Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris, (France)

Jean-Michel Wal

Dr, Director, Laboratoire d'Immuno-Allergie Alimentaire, Service de Pharmacologie et Immunologie (SPI), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Centre d'etudes de Saclay, Gif sur Yvette (France)

Ronald Walker

Professor, Food Safety Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford (United Kingdom)