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Monika Tönnießen

Monika Tönnießen

Manager Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs – Global Food Safety, Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Dr Monika Tönnießen is a chemist by profession with the degree of doctor in organic chemistry. In 1993 she started working for Henkel AG & Co. KGaA in the division Industrial Adhesives, department product development of labelling adhesives. Since 2008 she is part of the Product Safety Department of the Adhesive Technologies division and deals with customer inquiries.

She is an expert on all topics related to food contact. At Henkel, she is the responsible manager for all food contact questions. She is member of the paper & packaging group of the European Adhesive Association FEICA and of the technical committee paper/packaging (TKPV) of the German adhesives association IVK.