Plastics and Paper in Contact with Foodstuffs (P&P) returns to Europe in 2022 to once again equip attendees with all the topical concerns in the food contact industry and developed knowledge on how to best comply with the latest regulations for plastic and paper packaging in contact with foodstuffs.
André Weiss is a food chemist by profession. He works as Lab Manager Instrumental Analytics within Henkel’s Central Analytical Department. He is responsible for testing of sensitive commodities including food packaging materials, medical products and hygiene products with special focus on adhesives and coatings. He has a PhD studies in Food Chemistry from the University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Dominic Hoy is a Food Contact Steward at Intertek Wilton, working in the Regulatory team with a special focus on our Service Level Agreement clients to who we provide Global Food Contact Regulatory support across a range of Food Contact Materials and at all stages of the supply chain from starting substances to final materials and articles.
Steven Marks is Director of Product Compliance for the Avery Dennison Corporation, a diversified Fortune 500 manufacturer of labeling, packaging, and medical products with over 150 locations globally. In this role, he has global responsibility for the company’s product stewardship, safety, and compliance program, ensuring that the company’s products meet regulatory requirements in all countries where its products are sold, are safe for use by customers, and achieve world class sustainability and environmental performance.
Previously, he was global environmental manager for General Electric Consumer and Industrial, the division of GE that manufactures home appliances, lighting products, and electrical distribution equipment. In this role, he ensured that the division’s operations minimized environmental impacts and achieved associated regulatory requirements. Steven has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Dayton and a Masters of Science in Engineering Management from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology.
Dr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University.
Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. He is one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, nationally as well as internationally. He has testified on several occasions before parliamentary committees on food policy-related issues as an expert witness. He has been asked to act as an advisor on food and agricultural policies in many Canadian provinces and other countries.
Jonathan studied biochemistry and specialised in toxicology at the University of Surrey in the UK and graduated there in 2002. He joined the UK's Food Standards Agency the same year where he worked as a senior scientific officer on risk management of chemicals in food, including contaminants, pesticides and food contact materials. He represented and negotiated on behalf of the UK at EU and international level including Codex and managed several research and surveillance projects.
Jonathan joined the European Commission in 2014 and works as a policy officer in DG SANTE on food contact materials including the new initiative to revise the EU legislation. He is based in Brussels, in Belgium.
After completing her higher technical education in chemistry, Elisa Mayrhofer studied Biology at the University of Vienna. For her master thesis she investigated DNA double strand breaks in yeast and was awarded with the Austrian Honorary State Price. Since 2018 she has been working on the development and validation of methods for the safety assessment of unidentified substances in food packaging migrates at the Austrian Research Institute for Chemistry and Technology (OFI). Her research mainly focuses on the establishment of an in-vitro bioassay-based strategy to detect DNA-reactive mutagens.
In more than 100 years of practice, Steptoe has earned an international reputation for vigorous representation of clients before governmental agencies, successful advocacy in litigation and arbitration, and creative and practical advice in structuring business transactions. Steptoe has more than 500 lawyers and other professional staff across offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Washington.
