GMO Unit
The GMO Unit is a department of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) dedicated to risk assessment for GMOs and to oversee the coordination of the GMO Panel. The Unit was led by Suzy Renckens from 2002 to 2008. During this time, Renckens was both head of the GMO Unit and scientific co-ordinator of the GMO Panel.[1] When Renckens left for a position at Syngenta in 2008, former deputy head Elisabeth Waigmann became head of the GMO Unit.
Acccording to the EFSA, the Unit 'provides administrative and scientific support to the work of the GMO Panel and may carry out other projects in EFSA’s remit. The unit may also produce scientific outputs on behalf of EFSA, for instance in response to urgent requests for scientific advice'.[2]
Contents
People
Head of GMO Unit
- Elisabeth Waigmann, head of the GMO Unit since 2008
- Suzy Renckens, former head of the GMO Unit from 2002-2008
Officers and assistants
- Anna Christodoulidou, Senior Officer
- Claudia Paoletti, Senior Officer
- Zoltan Diveki, Officer
- Sylvie Mestdagh, Officer
- Ana Rocheta Gomes, Officer
- Andrea Gennaro, Officer
- Matthew Ramon, Officer
- Yann Devos, Officer
- Yi Liu, Junior Officer
- Anders Falk, Officer
- Irina Olaru, Officer
- Antonio Fernandez Dumont, Junior Officer
- Christina Ehlert, Junior Officer
- Jaime Aguilera, Junior Officer
- Andrea Germini, Junior Officer
- Claudine Ziegelmeyer, Senior Assistant
- Valeria Bernazzali, Assistant
- Sonia Hernández Valero, Assistant
- Yustina Olshevska Grigorov, Assistant
- Luana Giorgini, Assistant
- Malene Ydesen, Assistant[3]
Resources
Contact
- Email:
- gmo@efsa.europa.eu
Notes
- ↑ Testbiotech (2010), European Food Safety Authority: A playing field for the biotech industry, Testbiotech report, p3, accessed 9 January 2013.
- ↑ EFSA (2013), About the GMO Panel and the GMO Unit, accessed 12 January 2013
- ↑ Europa, EFSA staff directory, accessed 21 January 2013
