Professor Hans Verhagen

Professor Verhagen is a Food Safety and Nutrition consultant following his retirement from EFSA in 2020 where he was the Head of the Risk Assessment and Scientific Assistance Department as well as a Senior Scientific Officer. He is an alumnus of Universities of Nijmegen (Netherlands) and Paris studying chemistry, as well as having a PhD in food toxicology from the University of Maastricht (Netherlands). He has a wide range of experience having worked at the TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute (Netherlands), Unilever (Netherlands), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM; Netherlands).

He has served on many editorial boards of scientific journals. He has been editor-in-chief of “Food & Chemical Toxicology” and the “European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety”.

Professor Verhagen is a board-certified toxicologist and nutritionist. He has served as a member of the EFSA-NDA panel for 9 years, working on novel foods and health claims. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster and The Technical University of Denmark. He has a large number of publications on toxicology, food safety and nutrition.

Register of Interests

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