Dr.
Harry.A. Kuiper
Department of
Food Safety and Health of RIKILT Wageningen
University & Research Center
Dr. Harry A. Kuiper
is head of the Department of Food Safety and Health
of RIKILT Wageningen University & Research
Center, Wageningen, 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 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 is member of various
national and international expert committees like
the EU Scientific Committee on Plants, the OECD Task
Force on the safety of genetically modified foods
and the Italian Advisory Committee on Biotechnology
in Agriculture. He is co-ordinator of the European
Network program on Safety of Transgenic Foods (ENTRANSFOOD)
funded by the European Commission. Furthermore he
participated in the 2nd FAO/WHO Expert Consultation
on the Safety of Genetically Modified Foods held in
Rome in 1996, and chaired the 3rd FAO/WHO
consultation on Foods Derived from Biotechnology,
held in Geneva May 2000.
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