Ms. GuiQin SHANG graduated from Xiamen University with a master's degree in analytical chemistry in 2007. She has engaged in food contact material safety for 14 years, and mainly involved in chemical analysis, safety assessment, legislative promotion, and industry practice of food contact material. She has been serving as an expert in various organizations, such as National Food Safety Standards Evaluation Committee of Food Related products, the Technical Committee for Standardization of Plastic Articles (SAC/TC397/SC6), Paper Articles (SAC /TC141/SC3) and metals Articles (SAC/TC397/SC5). To date, she has edited and published The Practical Guide on the Quality Control, Inspection And Supervision of Food Contact Materials, The Guide to The Evaluation and Declaration of New Varieties of Food Contact Materials, The Safety Evaluation of Food Contact Materials and The Construction of Evaluation Parameters in China, and has participated in the compilation of foreign Laws and regulations on Food Contact Materials.While has participated in drafting 14 National Food Safety Standards for nipple, coatings , rubber, etc., and published more than 20 papers on Food Contact Materials.
2021 to date, Food Contact Material Regulatory Manager, PPG PKG AP
2011-2021, Product Stewardship Manager, PPG Auto, IC
2007-2011, Food Contact Chemical and Product Safety Advisor, Clariant
15 years’ product compliance experience in chemical industry from raw material to food contact coating; comprehensive understanding about FCM regulations within China and AP region; broad regulatory knowledge on coating safety management
Dr. Hoagland graduated with a B.S. degree in Biochemistry from Purdue University and Ph.D. degree in Pharmacology from the University of Kentucky. Dr. Hoagland completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and started his regulatory career as a Toxicology Review Scientist for the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. In that time, Dr. Hoagland reviewed the safety of Food Contact Notifications (FCNs) and worked on food contact material-related special projects. Dr. Hoagland has over 14 years of experience working in the chemical industry in product compliance of materials with animal feed/human food contact and professional and consumer pest control and antimicrobial products and devices at the state, federal and international level. Dr. Hoagland is a member of the Society of Toxicology.
Tom Carr has been in the Plastic Packaging Industry for 31 years, beginning his career with Trigon Packaging Systems in 1991 as a BSc(Tech) Student. Working in the Research and Development lab of their Hamilton plant, he became proficient in film analysis and physical properties testing of plastic packaging. In 2009, he ventured into the world of packaging regulatory compliance. Mentored by Sealed Air’s Regulatory Directors in Europe (Dario Dainelli) and America (Martin Ecoff), the learning curve was steep, but rewarding, eventually overseeing the compliance needs for Sealed Air’s Australia/New Zealand products, predominantly for Fonterra and the NZ Meat industry.
In 2015, Tom moved his family to Palmerston North to join Fonterra’s Packaging innovation and Development Team as a Senior Packaging Technologist at Fonterra’s Research and Development Centre. For the past 5 years Tom has overseen packaging compliance for Fonterra’s local and export business.
Fun fact: Tom is passionate about Litter reduction, and was Keep New Zealand Beautiful’s “Tidy Kiwi Award for 2017”, for picking up over 1300kg of litter between 2015 and 2017. Tom continues to pick up litter where-ever he goes, and can happily report he has picked up litter in Shanghai, Amsterdam, Berlin, Heathrow, and too many NZ Cities and towns to mention.
EDUCATION
• Doctor Degree in Chemistry (macromolecular science), University of Pisa, Italy
• Master Degree in Law, Michigan State University, USA
EXPERIENCE
• Current: Owner and Managing Director of the company Dario Dainelli-Policy & Regulatory Affairs, established in Brussels in 2018
• 2017-2018: Director of Quality & Regulatory Affairs in SITGROUP, Republic of San Marino
• 1999-2017: various management positions in Sealed Air Corporation, including Global Regulatory, and Regulatory Affairs Director for Asia and EMEA
• 1991-1999: W.R. Grace, Laboratory and EU Regulatory manager
Marco has been involving in food contact materials for more than 20 years. In 2008, He worked as a visiting scientist at Joint research Center of European Commission. Marco is the member of Reviewing Committee for China National Food Safety Standards, and the member of Standardization Committee for plastic food contact material and food contact paper. To date, he has published more than 100 papers in journals and academic conferences. Marco was assigned by the authority since 2014 to draft a serial of Chinese legislations including multilayer packaging, wood and bamboo, Paper and paper board, as well as specific migration methods.
Marco was also appointed as the chairperson of expert committee for FCMs in China food industry association ,The chairperson of working force for China sustainable food contact material, and the member of scientific committee (SC) of International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Europe, dedicating to assist government and industry to manage the safety and sustainable FCMs on a scientific manner.
Joined Dow Chemical since 2003 and engaged in product safety and regulatory compliance during last 17 years crossing multiple businesses. Has extensive experience and in regulatory fields of many product such as general chemical, food/food contact etc. and rich knowledge of product risk assessment. Over years, participated many advocacy projects of product regulations-pharmaceutical DMF regulation, cosmetic material management and food contact national standard etc., also played some leadership roles in local industrial associations-Vice Chair of IPEC (China)(2009-2011), Multiple Food Contact Product Taskforce Leaders in AICM (2011-2017) , and vice chair in Food Contact Expert Committee under China National Food Industry Association (2015-2017). Transferred to current role to take accountability of product compliance and safety stewardship for all Dow P&SP portfolios in pan-Asia since 2016.
Eric Gu advises domestic and foreign clients on the requirements and regulations for a variety of consumer products, including foods, food additives, food packaging materials, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, and associated labeling, with a focus on China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and other Asian countries.
Prior to joining Keller and Heckman, Mr. Gu worked as an attorney in law firms in Shanghai and New York and acquired deep understanding of both China and U.S. laws and practice. While attending the University of Wisconsin Law School, Mr. Gu participated in the Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition and served as an IRS-certified volunteer for assistance in federal individual income tax filing.
Khadejeh Ziabasharhagh is a scientific evaluator with the Bureau of Chemical Safety at Health Canada. She has extensive knowledge of risk assessment evaluation activities and regulatory guidelines on food packaging materials and non-food chemicals and has been directly involved in pre-market chemical safety assessment of food packaging materials and non-food chemicals. She is experienced in providing information and guidance to scientific and regulatory inquiries from industry, public and private sector clients on the adventitious chemical substances in food.
Bonnie Zhang graduated from Fudan University as Ph.D, majoring Pharmaceutics. She works in Nouryon as Senior Regulatory Manager who is responsible for monitoring regulatory update and executing regulatory advocacy strategy in agreement with business stakeholders.
She has more than 10 years regulatory affairs experiences with chemical control laws, food packaging, medical device and fragrances. Before joined Nouryon, Bonnie Zhang worked in international companies as Product stewardship and compliance manager where she managed regulatory communication and advocacy, product compliance check, customer support activities in food packaging industry. She also supported Dangerous chemicals, pharma excipient IDL application, cosmetic and medical device certificate related issues.
Kathryn (Katie) Skaggs is an expert in the regulation of food contact materials in a host of jurisdictions including the U.S., EU, South America (particularly the MERCOSUR bloc), Canada, China, eastern Asia, India, the Middle East (GCC), Australia, and New Zealand. Katie assists companies in bringing to market new food contact materials, such as plastics, biopolymers, paper, adhesives, coatings, recycled materials, and components of these materials (antioxidants, colorants, and other additives and processing aids), through submissions to government agencies in the U.S. and abroad. She manages post-market issues for food contact substances, such as recalls and accidental adulterations, and advises on environmental claims for food contact materials, as well as compliance with state laws like California's Proposition 65.
Chen Hu provides assistance to foreign and domestic clients in the area of food, food packaging, and chemical control, in matters related to regulatory compliance in in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and other Asian countries.
Mr. Hu works closely with government authorities and trade associations in various phases of regulatory development. Mr. Hu has prepared and submitted hundreds of Chinese applications for registration of food packaging materials, food additives, new food ingredients, and new chemical substances. He is experienced in auditing plant facilities for food and food packaging manufacturers.
Mr. Hu has master degrees in biochemistry and biostatistics
Sylvain Rannou holds a PhD of Polymer Science & Engineering from The University of Manchester, UK.
With over 15 years’ experience in the polymer and food packaging industry, in the UK and in Singapore, his expertise covers a range of functions and skillsets: from packaging development, polymer processing & regulatory compliance, to training & coaching, issue management and networking to leverage expertise.
Having previously worked in R&D for Mars Drinks UK and A*STAR Singapore, he spent 8 years as the Expert in Packaging Safety & Compliance (PS&C) for the Nestlé Quality Assurance Center (NQAC), covering the Asia-Oceania-Africa (AOA) zone. In September 2020, he took on a new position in the Nestlé Dairy business to support the global implementation of the PS&C program for new packaging solutions.
Dr. Zhang is leading a team of regulatory experts in AP region covering China, Korea and Japan. Service scope of her team incl. industrial chemicals, food contact materials and cosmetics. As a regulatory toxicologist with 15 years experiences, Dr. Zhang helps Chemical manufactures understand and comply with global regulations during producing and using of new and existing chemicals. She has successfully delivered compliance solutions to more than 200 International chemical manufacturers.
Dr. Zhang has extensive expertise on global chemical notification programs and product safety assessment strategies base on different applications e.g., food packaging materials and cosmetics raw ingredients. With GLP experiences and regulatory expertise, her team helps chemical industry address challenging regulatory requirements in a timely and cost-effective manner, by developing and successfully executing of test data, and providing expert judgment of waiving statements.
Dr. Zhang acquired her Medical Doctoral Degree in School of Pharmacy Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She is now a Member of Council of Chinese Society of Toxicology (CST) and a subcommittee member of the Society of Toxicity industrial chemicals, subcommittee member of food safety, alternative toxicology, CST.
Jingjing Pan, PhD in Materials Science from Sun Yat-sen University, with deep background knowledge she has 10 years of study and research experience in the field of materials science.
She joined IQTC postdoctoral workstation in 2016 and participated in the formulation and revision of many standards for National Food Safety Standard, such as food contact bamboo and wood, paper and paperboard, multilayer material, etc. She has in-depth understanding and research on GB standards system, regulation and risk assessment.
She leads the team to conduct research on domestic and international standards and regulations, support the compliance work of enterprises, guide the safety evaluation of new materials, and pay close attention to the sustainable development of food packaging.
Danhof Lee is currently the Consultant for Regulatory Affair & Technical Administration, Asia Pacific PPG Packaging Coatings. He graduated from Shanghai University. Before joining PPG he had worked as engineer and subsidiary company director of a state-run paint coating manufacturer. After joining PPG Packaging Coatings he was Business Manager, Coating and Ink Technical Service Manager, China. Since 2007 he had been PS & Technical Administration Manager of AP and Director of Regulatory Affair & Technical Administration, Asia Pacific. Mr. Lee has been in the role of leader who encourages and inspires team with insightful guidance. He possesses talent of foreseeing, evaluating the needs from home and abroad, to ensure R&D run on a more effective and correct way. In 2010 Mr. Lee was elected as Coating Subcommittee Chair of Industry Policy Advocacy Committee (IPAC), AICM and has been working with it till now.
At Steptoe and Johnson, Dr. Jessica Cooper assists clients by guiding them through regulatory policy in the food additives and food contact substances space. Prior to joining Steptoe, Jessica served at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as the Lead Chemist & Master Reviewer, where she provided leadership, strategic direction, and ensured consistency of regulatory policy regarding food additives and food contact substances in FDA's Office of Food Additive Safety (OFAS). She led OFAS in providing technical input, advice, and recommendations on migration testing protocols and dietary exposure assessments. Jessica was also the chemistry subject matter expert on perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and nanomaterials used in food packaging.
Education: MBA in Sustainability & Leadership/BSc in Biology & Chemistry
Working experiences:
20years in Chemical Industry in the areas of Product Safety & Regulatory Affairs, and Safety Health, Environment & Quality Management, Manufacturing and Engineering.
1. Chemist and European Registered Toxicologist (ERT)
2. 15 years with Henkel (last position: Global Head of Regulatory Affairs)
3. 7 years with Siegwerk
4. Globally responsible for Food Safety, Toxicology and Packaging Regulations
5. > 20 years involved in association affairs, e.g. CEFIC, ECETOC, AISE, CEPE, EuPIA
6. Chairman of the EuPIA NIAS Risk Management Task Force
Zhaohui Wang, Phd degree, professor-level senior engineer, has been engaged in the research of food-related products and green packaging regulations and testing technology for a long time. Dr. Wang is the director of Packaging and Daily Chemicals Testing Center in the Beijing Institute of Product Quality Supervision and Inspection (BQI). She is currently preparing for the acceptance of the Quality Inspection and Testing Center for National Food-related Products and Green Packaging in Beijing.
Over the years, she has presided over and participated in a number of ministerial and provincial-level issues related to food packaging, and has presided over and participated in the formulation and revision of a number of national food safety standards for glass products, food contact coatings and coated products, renewable cellulose materials and products, plastic products, and general safety requirements for food contact materials, etc. She is the vice chairman of the Food-Related Products Sub-Committee of the Second-term Food Safety National Standards Review Committee for the Health Commission. She is the Deputy Secretary General of the Packaging and Environment Sub-Committee of the National Packaging Standardization Technical Committee; a member of the first batch of the National Health Science Expert Database of the Healthy China Initiative...
2013 - PRESENT
Position: Packaging Project Development Adviser/Director
Short description the task/responsibility: specific projects consultant for several companies: Merindo Makmur, Finson-Indomas, Stenta Films Sdn.Bhd., Supernova Group, Riau Andalan Pulp&Paper, MAN-Ferrostaal Indonesia.
Address: Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur
Type of business or sector: Packaging Technology and Materials.
Feb 2012 - Apr 2013
Position: Technical Director of Amcor Flexibles Asia-Pacific/Indonesia
Short description the task/responsibility: Leading the Innovation and Business Development
Address: Singapore, Australia and Jakarta
Type of business or sector: Flexible Packaging Manufacturing.
Mrs. Sumalee Tangpitayakul received an Honors Degree in BSc. Food Technology and MSc. Chemical Technology. She has over 25 years experienced in food contact materials, especially in the area of safety testing and method development. Her expertise also includes development of standards and regulations regarding to food contact materials at national and regional level.
Her last position is a Deputy Director General of Department of Science Service (DSS) responsible for administrative works and supervising the packaging laboratory of DSS, which is ASEAN Reference Laboratory for Food Contact Materials. Currently She is an advisor of Thai Packaging Association, responsible for consulting and training of food contact materials standards and regulations for Thai Packaging Association’s member and public. She also serves as a member of technical committee Food and Drug administration (Thai FDA) for food contact materials and a technical committee of and National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS). ACFS is a contact point of ASEAN Prepared Foodstuffs Product working group, whic is in charge of developing ASEAN General Guideline for food Contact materials.
David Ettinger is the chief representative in Keller and Heckman’s Shanghai, China office. Mr. Ettinger counsels multinational companies on the import and export of food and food-related products to ensure compliance with regulations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He also counsels clients on compliance with the laws and regulations in China regarding consumer products and tobacco-related products, such as e-cigarettes. Mr. Ettinger worked in the firm’s Washington, DC and Brussels offices, and is uniquely positioned to counsel foreign companies who need to navigate the regulatory landscape in Asia.
Mr. Ettinger is on the Executive Board and Chair of Mackrell International. He is on the leadership committee of the American Chamber of Commerce Shanghai’s Food, Agriculture & Beverage Committee. He is a frequent lecturer and author on international food safety matters. Mr. Ettinger is a Chambers and Partners ranked attorney in the area of Life Sciences (International Firms) – China and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2016 (FDA Law).
Prior to joining Keller and Heckman, Mr. Ettinger was a trademark attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Additionally, he has extensive trial experience as a former assistant district attorney in the Nassau County District Attorney's Office in New York where he prosecuted felonies and misdemeanors.
Päivi Harju-Eloranta has a Master’s degree in Chemistry. She has worked in Stora Enso more than 30 years in various positions. Päivi has wide experience in product and packaging development, technical marketing, sustainability and product safety. Current responsibility as a Director, Product Stewardship, means involvement in food safety, compliance topics and regulatory affairs
Alistair manages the Food Packaging Safety Section within Smithers. This involves advising clients on the safety legislation which applies to food packaging in a wide range of different countries throughout the world and coordinating work programmes to ensure that clients' products meet these requirements. His expertise spans all the EU countries, USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Russia and all the South American countries.
Alistair graduated with a degree and PhD in Chemistry from Birmingham University. After working for BP and the Department of Health, he joined Smithers in 1994, taking up his current position in 1995.
