Prof Wu Yongning

Wu Yongning is the chief technical officer of the National Food Safety Risk Assessment Center, co-director of the Food Safety Innovation Unit of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (2019RU4), director of the Key Laboratory of the National Health Commission, and director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Food Contamination Monitoring (China). He was selected to the WHO Food Safety Advisory Group (2021), the International Academy of Food Science (2018), the National Innovation Award (2017), and the National Hundred Thousand Talents (2007). In 1983, he graduated from Nanjing Medical University (formerly Nanjing Medical College) with a bachelor's degree in public health. In 1986 and 1997, he graduated from the former Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine with a master's degree and a doctorate in nutrition and food hygiene, respectively. He was a UICC scholar at the WHO International Center for Cancer Research (IARC) and a Royal Society scholar at the MRC Toxicology Unit of the UK. Closely in line with the needs of risk assessment and supervision of food contaminants in my country, he conducted research on China's total diet and its body load monitoring technology, and developed chemical pollutant exposure group characterization and assessment technology. He conducted research on detection technology for hot issues such as persistent organic pollutants (dioxins, polychlorinated biphenyls, brominated flame retardants, perfluorinated organic comp