Harry Kuiper
From BINAS
Dr. Harry Kuiper (The Netherlands)
Expertise:
- Safety assessment of residues of agrochemicals in food, of health protecting compounds and of genetically modified foods
- Allergenicity of Genetically Modified Foods
Current Affiliation:
- International Account Manager and Programme Leader, RIKILT – Institute of Food Safety, Wageningen University & Research Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Research Area:
Dr. Harry A. Kuiper is International Account Manager and Programme Leader at RIKILT – Institute of Food Safety, Wageningen University & Research Centre, The Netherlands since 1984. He received his academic training at the Agricultural University Wageningen in food science, and completed in 1976 a PhD-study at the State University of Groningen, Department of Biochemistry, concerning the structure and function of hemocyanins and hemoglobins. He worked from 1976-1980 at the University of Rome, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry as a postdoc fellow on oxygen binding of hemocyanins and hemoglobins.
Dr. Kuiper is involved in safety assessment of residues of agrochemicals in food, of health protecting compounds and of genetically modified foods. He is leader of various national and EU-financed projects concerning food safety. He served as member of the EU Scientific Committee on Plants from 1997 till 2003, chairs since May 2003 the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), and is member of the EFSA Scientific Committee. He was co-ordinator of the European Network on Safety Assessment of Transgenic Foods (ENTRANSFOOD) (2000-2004) funded under the EU 5-th Framework Programme, and is co-ordinator of the Integrated Project “Promoting Food Safety through a New Integrated Risk Analysis Approach for Foods” (SAFE FOODS), funded under the EU 6-th Framework Programme.
He was member of the OECD Task Force on the Safety of Genetically Modified Foods, the Italian Advisory Committee on Biotechnology in Agriculture (1999-2002) and of the IUPAC-Committee on Agrochemicals and the Environment. Furthermore he participated in the FAO/WHO Expert Consultations on the Safety of Genetically Modified Foods (1996), chaired the FAO/WHO Consultation on Foods Derived from Biotechnology (2000) and participated in the FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Allergenicity of Genetically Modified Foods (2001). He chaired the FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on the Safety Assessment of Foods derived from GM Animals, held in 2003 in Rome.
