Members of the Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies (NDA)

The NDA 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 NDA Panel members for 2009 - 2012.

NDA Panel Members and their areas of expertise

Albert Flynn – Chair

  • Human nutrition
  • Nutritional biochemistry
  • Nutritional epidemiology
  • Food consumption, dietary surveys
  • Scientific substantiation of health claims
  • Nutrient requirements
  • Risk assessment of nutrients
  • Exposure assessment
  • Risk-benefit assessment of food fortification

Hildegard Przyrembel – Vice-Chair

  • Human nutrition
  • Infant nutrition
  • Human medicine
  • Nutrient requirements
  • Nutritional epidemiology
  • Nutritional biochemistry
  • Paediatrics
  • Inborn errors of metabolism
  • Risk assessment of nutrients

Hendrik van Loveren – Vice-Chair

  • Immunotoxicology
  • Immune health claims
  • Immunosuppression
  • Sensitization
  • Allergy (including food allergy)
  • Autoimmunity
  • Probiotics
  • Risk assessment
  • (Immuno)toxicogenomics
  • In vitro test systems

Carlo Virginio Agostoni

  • Human milk
  • Infants nutrition
  • Food allergy and dietary therapy
  • Inborn errors of metabolism and dietary therapy
  • Dyslipidemias
  • Fatty acids in human nutrition
  • Dietary surveys in children
  • Protein and carbohydrate needs in infants and children

Jean Louis Bresson

  • Paediatrics
  • Nutrition - Requirements (particularly in infant and children, in pregnancy and lactation)
  • Nutrition - Risk assessment of nutritional diseases (same group)
  • Metabolism (in vivo studies: indirect calorimetry, isotopic dilution, GC-MS and IR-MS measurements)
  • Clinical research methodology (study design and analysis)
  • Former expert to AFSSAPS and AFSSA

Susan Fairweather-Tait

  • Human nutrition
  • Nutrient requirements
  • Mineral metabolism
  • Micronutrients
  • Nutritional status
  • Bioavailability
  • Fortification
  • Food consumption, dietary surveys
  • Dietary intervention studies

Ines Golly

  • Toxicology
  • Safety assessment of novel foods/ingredients
  • Clinical research related to micronutrients/botanicals and efficacy/safety
  • Health claim assessment
  • Food-drug interactions
  • Risk-benefit assessment of drugs including intolerance and allergy of additives
  • Micronutrient requirements
  • Pharmacology/Biochemical pharmacology
  • Nutrition medicine

Hannu Jaakko Tapani Korhonen

  • Human nutrition
  • Food consumption
  • Nutrient requirements
  • Nutritional biochemistry
  • Food chemistry, microbiology and processing

Pagona Lagiou

  • Human medicine
  • Internal medicine
  • Epidemiology and risk assessment
  • Nutritional epidemiology
  • Chronic disease epidemiology
  • Exposure assessment
  • Food consumption, dietary surveys
  • Human nutrition

Martinus Løvik

  • Food allergy and intolerance
  • Immunotoxicology
  • Immunology: basic and clinical
  • Respiratory allergy and asthma
  • Skin allergies
  • Human medicine
  • Research animal experimentation
  • Systematic critical scientific literature reviews
  • Toxicology
  • Epidemiology

Rosangela Marchelli

  • Organic chemistry
  • Chemistry of natural products
  • Food chemistry
  • Methods of analysis
  • Allergens
  • Mycotoxins
  • Peptides
  • GMO
  • DNA/RNA

Ambroise Martin

  • Human nutrition
  • Nutrient requirements
  • Nutritional biochemistry
  • Nutritional risk assessment
  • Nutrition policy

Bevan Moseley

  • Microbial Genetics and GM Microorganisms
  • Radiation Biology and Food Irradiation
  • Biotechnology
  • Novel Foods

Monika Neuhäuser-Berthold

  • Human nutrition
  • Nutritional biochemistry
  • Nutrient requirements
  • Nutrition in the advanced age
  • Food consumption, dietary surveys
  • Nutritional epidemiology and risk assessment

Seppo Salminen

  • Food toxicology
  • Nutritional toxicology
  • Novel foods
  • Food additives and pesticides
  • Risk assessment of food components
  • Microbiology
  • Probiotic safety

Yolanda Sanz

  • Human nutrition
  • Food allergy and intolerance
  • Food microbiology
  • Immunology
  • Biosafety

John J Strain

  • Human nutrition

Stephan Strobel

  • Human medicine
  • Paediatrics
  • Gastroenterology
  • Immunology
  • Allergy
  • Allergenicity assessment
  • Biological model systems
  • Scientific research, evaluation and supervision
  • Risk assessment
  • Risk management

Inge Tetens

  • Human nutrition
  • Dietary intervention studies
  • Assessment of intake, bioavailability and nutrition status
  • Postprandial responses to carbohydrates
  • Micronutrients

Daniel Tomé

  • Human nutrition
  • Reference intakes
  • Nutrient requirements
  • Protein and amino acid requirement
  • Energy requirement
  • Gut physiology
  • Metabolism
  • Nutritional biochemistry
  • Food consumption and feeding behaviour
  • Metabolic disorders

Hans Verhagen (FJJ)

  • Nutrition
  • Toxicology; toxicological risk assessment
  • Integrated benefit-risk assessment
  • Scientific substantiation of health claims
  • Food composition; food analysis
  • Food fortification
  • Biomarkers
  • Genetic toxicology testing; OECD test guidelines
  • Non-nutritive dietary constituents, (bioactive) plant substances, antioxidants
  • Micronutrients


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