Food Biotechnology - the Global Perspective

Between 1989-1995 Dr Popping has been working in the field of yeast molecular genetics, immunology and biochemistry at the universities of Bochum (Germany) and Durham (UK). This work included the design and the production of transgenic yeast. He joined the UK Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food in December 1995 and became the Head of GMO and Molecular Meat Speciation Service at CSL in 1997. This laboratory offered the first commercial GMO testing service in the UK. In 1999 he joined Eurofins Scientific as Company Molecular Biologist and Head of Department at Eurofins WEJ Laboratory in Germany. He became one of the three UK national experts in the newly established CEN working group, which has the task to harmonize methods for the detection of genetically modified organisms in Europe.