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Food Enzymes

The FEZ Panel is responsible for the safety assessment of food enzymes from various sources.  

FEZ Panel Members are scientists from across Europe with expertise in: 

  • Chemistry - Biochemistry and food chemistry 
  • Microbiology - Food microbiology
  • Molecular biology - Bioinformatics and whole genome sequencing  
  • Food Technology – Food engineering and bioprocessing 
  • Toxicology – Genotoxicity, systemic toxicity and regulatory toxicology 
  • Allergenicity 
  • Dietary exposure - Deterministic and probabilistic tools, food composition and food classification system 

* The FEZ Panel continues the work of the former Panel on Food Contact Materials, Enzymes and Processing Aids (CEP), with a focus on the food enzymes area, whilst the responsibility for the evaluation of Food Contact Materials has been handed over to the FCM Panel. In addition, depending on the specific expertise required, the safety assessment of some processing aids will be allocated either to the FEZ Panel or to the FCM Panel. 

Panel composition before 2018
2018-2024

Panel composition and Declarations of Interests

2017-2028

Chair: Vittorio Silano
Vice-Chair: Karl-Heinz Engel; Detlef Wölfle
Members: Claudia Bolognesi; Laurence Castle; Kevin Chipman; Jean-Pierre Cravedi; Paul Fowler; Roland Franz; Konrad Grob; Rainer Gürtler; Trine Husøy; Sirpa Kärenlampi; Wim Mennes; Maria Rosaria Milana; Karla Pfaff; Gilles Riviere; Jannavi Srinivasan; Maria de Fatima Tavares Poças; Christina Tlustos; Holger Zorn

2014-2017

Chair: Silano Vittorio
Vice-Chair: Mennes Wim; Wölfle Detlef
Members: Bolognesi Claudia; Castle Laurence; Cravedi Jean-Pierre; Engel Karl-Heinz; Fowler Paul; Franz Roland; Grob Konrad; Gürtler Rainer; Husøy Trine; Kärenlampi Sirpa, July 2015; Milana Maria Rosaria; Penninks André; Smith Andrew; Tavares Poças Maria De Fatima; Tlustos Christina; Toldrá Fidel, until September 2015; Zorn Holger; Zugravu Corina-Aurelia, July 2015

2011-2014

Chair: Mennes Wim, a partir de abril de 2014; Pratt Iona, until February 2014 †
Vice-Chair: Castle Laurence, a partir de abril de 2014; Wölfle Detlef
Members: Beckman Sundh Ulla; Binderup Mona-Lise; Bolognesi Claudia; Brimer Leon; Di Domenico Alessandro; Engel Karl-Heinz; Franz Roland; Gontard Nathalie; Guertler Rainer; Husoy Trine; Jany Klaus-Dieter; Kolf-Clauw Martine; Milana Maria Rosaria; Svensson Kettil; Tavares Pocas Maria de Fatima; Toldra Fidel

2008-2011

Chair: Klaus-Dieter Jany
Vice-Chair: Karl-Heinz Engel; Wim Mennes
Members: Arturo Anadon; David Bell, hasta finales de noviembre de 2009; Mona-Lise Binderup; Wilfried Bursch; Laurence Castle; Riccardo Crebelli; Roland Franz; Nathalie Gontard; Thomas Haertle; Trine Husoy; Catherine Leclercq; Jean-Claude Lhuguenot; Maria Rosaria Milana; Karla Pfaff; Kettil Svensson; Fidel Toldra; Rosemary Waring; Detlef Wölfle

The Declarations of Interests and CVs of previous Panel members are available upon interestmanagement [at] efsa.europa.eu (request).

Working groups

No active working groups for this expert group.

Closed working groups

Bacillus AMR

Enzymes - CEF Panel

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Enzymes - CEP Panel

Food Enzymes 2017-2018 - CEF Panel

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WG on the Update of the Guidance on Food Enzymes

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