Members of the Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP)

The FEEDAP Panel brings together highly qualified risk assessment experts from a number of European nationalities with expertise in a range of relevant fields.

Panel members are appointed by the EFSA Management Board for three years renewable. Appointments are made on the basis of proven scientific excellence following an open call for applications and a rigorous selection procedure. The Panel regularly sets up Working Groups involving external scientists with relevant expertise to deal with specific matters and to help produce scientific opinions. All experts working for EFSA sign a Declaration of Interests to safeguard EFSA’s commitment to independence.

View the Declarations of Interests and biographies of FEEDAP Panel members for 2009 - 2012.

FEEDAP Panel Members and their areas of expertise

Andrew Chesson, Chair

  • Animal and human nutrition
  • Microbiology
  • Biological chemistry
  • Food and feed chemistry
  • Safety and efficacy assessment of feed additives

Jürgen M. Gropp, Vice-Chair

  • Animal physiology
  • Nutrition
  • Feedingstuffs for particular nutritional purposes
  • Nutrition diseases
  • Toxicology
  • Tolerance of animals to feed materials and additives
  • Assessment of safety and efficacy of additives

Alberto Mantovani, Vice-Chair

  • Toxicology
  • Pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics/metabolism (with special reference to exposure assessment)

Gabriele Aquilina

  • Toxicology
  • Genotoxicity testing
  • DNA damage and repair
  • Molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis
  • Genotoxic risk assessment
  • Carcinogenicity

Georges Bories

  • Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, metabolism and residue studies, trace analysis
  • Consumer safety assessment of feed additives

Pier Sandro Cocconcelli

  • Food Microbiology
  • Bacterial genomic, transcriptomics and metagenomic
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Microbiological risk assessment
  • Safety and efficacy assessment of feed additives

Joop de Knecht

  • Environmental risk assessment
  • Ecotoxicology, environmental chemistry
  • Toxicology
  • Biochemistry

Noël Albert Dierick

  • Animal nutrition (monogastrics)
  • Feed analysis (macro-nutrients, monomers, anti-nutritional factors)
  • Feed formulation, feeding techniques
  • Nutrient requirements
  • Digestive physiology (cannulated animals)
  • Microbiology, gut microbiology, gut histo-morphology
  • Mode of action of feed additives (in vitro, in vivo)
  • Safety and efficacy assessment of feed additives
  • Environmental friendly pig nutrition
  • Feeding strategies to reduce Salmonella excretion in pigs

Mikolaj Antoni Gralak

  • Animal nutrition
  • Feed and feeding technology
  • Mineral elements and vitamins
  • Antinutritional factors and biologically active substances in feed/food
  • By-products in animal nutrition
  • Animal physiology and biochemistry
  • Animal breeding
  • Animal production and technology
  • Animal health and welfare
  • Modeling

Ingrid Halle

  • Animal nutrition (Monogastric, poultry, pet) and risk assessment
  • Nutrient requirement and diet formulation
  • Animal physiology
  • Digestion of nutrients
  • Carry over of nutrients
  • Safety, efficacy and risk assessment of feed additives
  • Safety, efficacy and risk assessment of feeding stuffs

Christer Hogstrand

  • Biochemistry
  • Animal Physiology
  • Trace element nutrition
  • Zinc biology
  • Molecular toxicology
  • Ecotoxicology
  • Risk assessment of substances used in animal feeds
  • Risk assessment of radioactive substances in the laboratory
  • Laboratory risk assessment

Reinhard Kroker

  • Pharmacology
  • Pharmacokinetics
  • Risk assessment of residues
  • Toxicology

Lubomir Leng

  • Animal nutrition:
    • Trace elements in animal nutrition
    • Animal tolerance to trace elements
    • Non-protein nitrogen in ruminant`s nutrition
  • Mycotoxins:
    • Adverse effects of mycotoxins in poultry
    • Effects of mycotoxins on antioxidative status and immunocompetence in poultry
    • Mycotoxin binders
  • Animal physiology:
    • Absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) of trace elements in animals
    • Urea metabolism in ruminants

Secundino Lopez Puente

  • Animal nutrition
  • Animal production
  • Efficacy assessment of feed additives
  • Ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology
  • Feed evaluation
  • Rumen fermentation
  • Additives (plant additives, organic acids, yeasts, buffers)
  • Mathematical modelling in animal nutrition

Anne-Katrine Lundebye Haldorsen

  • Ecotoxicology
  • Toxicology
  • Fish nutrition
  • Aquaculture
  • Additives and contaminants
  • Environmental risk assessment

Giovanna Martelli

  • Associate Professor of Animal Production, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Animal feeding: studies on feed formulation, feeding techniques, use of feed additives, by-products, non-conventional protein sources with respect to animal health, production parameters (in-vivo and post-mortem traits) and Nitrogen balance of swine
  • Quality of animal-derived foods (especially PDO products)
  • Welfare assessment of farm animals (based on health, behavioural, haematological traits and scoring systems) in relation to the feeding technique and some environmental parameters
  • Organic farming (including feed formulations)
  • Formerly Member of a WG of EFSA on risk assessment with respect to animal welfare of fattening pigs

Miklós Mézes

  • Animal Nutrition
  • Animal Physiology
  • Animal Production

Derek Renshaw

  • Mammalian toxicology
  • Assessment of chemical risks to human health
  • Consumer safety
  • User safety

Maria Saarela

  • Expertise in microbiology:
    • Safety of especially lactic acid bacteria but also other bacteria for human or animal consumption (including topics such as identification, virulence factors, antibiotic susceptibility, interactions with resident microbiota, etc)
  • Other related issues:
    • Microbial production technologies
    • Stability of microbial products.

Kristen Sejrsen

  • Animal production
  • Animal nutrition
  • Animal physiology
  • Mammary gland biology and lactation
  • Bioactive milk components
  • Efficacy assessment of feed additives
  • Risk assessment of feed additives

Johannes Westendorf

  • Analytical and synthetic chemistry
  • General Pharmacology
  • General Toxicology
  • Experimental genotoxicology
  • Environmental Toxicology
  • Toxicology and pharmacology of natural compounds
  • Risk assessment of toxic compounds in plants, food and drugs 

View the Declarations of Interests of former FEEDAP Panel members for 2006 - 2009.