Prof. Dr. Hans Verhagen has over 42 years of experience in food safety and nutrition. He is a certified toxicologist and nutritionist. He worked at Universities (Nijmegen, Maastricht, Ulster, Copenhagen), in contract research (TNO), in industry (Unilever), for the national government (RIVM), and EFSA from 2015-2020. Between 2006 and 2015, he was a member of the EFSA-NDA panel, working on health claims and novel foods. He is a professor at the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland, since 2009) and at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU, Denmark, since 2021). Since 2020, he has been the owner and consultant at Food Safety & Nutrition Consultancy in the Netherlands.