Biocides Symposium 2023

David has recently retired after 35 years in global legislative processes, and a wide range of experience of EU biocide committees, working groups and technical workshops. In addition to his recent role as Senior Regulatory Analyst in Chemical Watch he worked for just under 20 years at UK HSE (UK Competent Authority for Biocides) as well as 7 years in industry and 5 years as a consultant.

Marta works in Unit E4-Pesticides and Biocides in the European Commission's Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (DG SANTE). She joined the European Commission in 2019.

Erik left ECHA, where he had been Chairman of the Biocidal Products Committee since 2009, in July 2023 and started a consultancy in the field of biocides, specialised in the Biocidal Products Regulation.

With an MSc in Political Science, Charlotta has worked for the Danish Ministry of the Environment since 2007, mainly with pesticides and water management, and since 2014 at DEPA with biocides.

Barry has been at Reckitt Benckiser since 2016, moving across different roles in both the Health and Hygiene business units. He has been managing the Reckitt Hygiene BPR team since 2020, responsible for the management and oversight of Reckitt EU BPR disinfectant portfolio, and is also member of Biocides 4 Europe management committee and general assembly.

Teresa is a Study Director for Eurofins Aquatic Ecotoxicology conducting ED studies with fish and frogs, namely FSTRA and AMA. she has recently participated in the development of a newly proposed in vivo test for ED, the iFEDT (integrated Fish Endocrine Disruption Test), potentially covering the most relevant endocrine modalities: Sex steroids and Thyroid hormones.

Philippe Hubert, director of Pepper, previously headed the Ineris Chronic Risk Division (toxicology/ecotoxicology, nanos, EMF, EDs, pollutants chemical analysis, and air pollution forecasting). At the Institute for Nuclear Protection and Safety, he managed the Risk Assessment and Management department (radiation epidemiology, risk analysis, risk perception). He developed methods both for low dose and major hazard assessment.

Boris' journey in the biocides field started 15 years ago at the Belgian Competent Authority. In 2019 he joined Biocides for Europe, a sector group of Cefic, which represents the biocides industry in Europe, and has led Biocides for Europe since 2023.

Nina works in the Pesticides and Biocides Unit of the Danish EPA, where she joined the biocides team in 2016. She is an ecotoxicologist and works with the environmental assessments of active substances and biocidal products. Furthermore, Nina participates in BPC and CA meetings on biocides.

Koen’s practice focuses on EU regulatory, business and competition law, with an emphasis on chemicals, pesticides, biocides & cosmetics. He is specialised in solving the antitrust issues potentially arising in these areas.

Agnieszka is Senior Government Relations and Regulatory Specialist – Biocides at Ecolab where her primary role is managing the active substance dossiers and representing Ecolab in Trade Associations- Cefic and AISE. She is Vice -president of Cefic's Biocides for Europe.

Eléonore Mullier specializes in EU regulatory law and litigation. She advises clients who, whether based in the EU or not, come into contact with EU regulations affecting the placing on the EU market of their products. Eléonore's knowledge extends to the entire life-cycle of materials, from chemicals legislation (biocides, REACH, classification and labelling, POPs, PPPs, etc.) to product and waste legislation (CE marking, RoHS/WEEE, Ecodesign, medical devices, single use plastics, waste and end-of-waste). She also advises clients on the interface between these regulations and on cross-sectoral issues including the European Green Deal initiatives

Karolina is a biologist specialized in applied entomology with PhD degree from agricultural sciences. With almost 15 years of experience in working with pesticides (plant protection products, biocidal products), she is responsible for the coordination of the registration process of biocidal products in the Polish Competent Authority on biocidal products.

Irantzu is the Project Officer at the Joint Research Center leading the SSbD project in the Technologies for Health Unit and in charge of the safety aspects of the SSbD framework. She has more than 15 years of experience as a professional in the field of regulatory affairs and product stewardship.

Berit Lindegaard works at the Danish Technological Institute as Product Manager. She has an M.Sc. Building engineer and is specialized in material science with more than 20 years of experience in wood preservation, coating and the EU environment legislation BPR.

In 2021 Daniela joined knoell as regulatory affair manager for biocidal products. Since 2013 she has managed projects aimed to Biocidal Products authorization, offering support from the data gap analysis to the product authorization. Due to her previous laboratory experience, her expertise on Biocidal products covers both the testing and the regulatory aspects of the projects.                                         

Christiane is a scientific officer at the German Environment Agency, currently working in the Biocides Section. She is responsible for the environmental risk assessment and authorisation of biocidal products.

With a background in public administration Rebekka has been working at CTGB since September 2020, first in the role of project manager biocides, and since February 2021 as a policy advisor on both plant protection products as biocides. She has been member of the Biocidal Product Committee since November 2022.

Camelia started her professional career at Cefic in 2009. Since 2016, she has led Biocides for Europe (B4E) where she actively follows the regulatory developments of the EU biocides legislation. She represents B4E in the various fora at EU level & provides support, information & advice to members in the area of compliance & implementation.

Christel Søgaard Kirkeby, M.Sc. of Environmental Engineering, is a project officer at the Danish Consumer Council. She works with problematic chemicals in products, guiding consumers to avoid unwanted chemicals such as allergens and suspected endocrine disruptors. Responsible for tests on consumer products, including detergents and cosmetics, and the app Kemiluppen

Dr Jansen has been scientific officer at BAuA since 2017, where she has worked on evaluation of efficacy for active substances/biocidal products and efficacy guidance development. She has been a member of the ECHA BPC Efficacy Working Group since 2019.

Ms Nepper-Rasmussen specialized in cancer research and took a PhD at the Institute for Molecular Medicine at SDU. She finished her PhD in senescence of cancer cells in 2019.  While finishing her PhD, she joined the Danish EPA´s chemical unit where she after additional training in toxicology works as a scientific officer. 

Dr. Florian H. H. Brill completed his microbiology studies by graduating from the University Duisburg-Essen in 2011.During 1995 and 2006 he worked for the microbial test laboratory Dr. Brill + Partner GmbH. In 2006 he moved to Switzerland in order to work for B. Braun Medical AG in the field of research and development for hygiene and wound care products. With his return in 2010, he took over the family-owned business and became Managing Director of Dr. Brill + Partner GmbH Institut für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie in Hamburg.

Shannon C. Wright is Manager of the disinfectants review team within Health Canada’s Natural and Non-prescription Health Products Directorate. Shannon has worked within the disinfectants field for nearly 2 decades, and has extensive experience working on and managing scientific reviews for surface disinfectants.

Adrian is a Master of Science graduate from the University of Maryland who worked briefly for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the area of immunotoxicology. Since 1988 he has been involved in various aspects of chemical regulation for Troy Chemical Corporation, a division of Troy Corporation. In this role he addressed chemical regulation for Troy in the biocidal area as well as agricultural products domestically and internationally. Since the acquisition of Troy Chemical Corp. in 2020 he has continued in his role as Director, Product Registration under Arxada.

Young-In Kim is a chief researcher at KTR in Korea.  She was working as a Regulatory Specialist especially in the field of “Technical Barriers to Trade” at the Korean government & KTR. With her broad and in-depth experience of both regulations, she became K-REACH & K-BPR consultant to help clients to comply with those regulations.

Vanessa has covered biocides, occupational health and various other topics for Chemical Watch News & Insight since 2013. Having spent more than a decade writing about the international chemical industry and chemical sciences, she combines her role at Chemical Watch News & Insight with freelance writing for several other publications in the chemistry sphere.