Prof Yongning WU

Professor Yongning Wu is Chief Scientist of the China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment (CFSA), Prof of Department of Nutrion and Food Safety of Peking Union Medical College, PI of Research Unit of Food Safety of Chinese Academy of Medical Science (2019RU014), the Director of NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment. He services as a member of WHO Techinical Advisory Group on Food Safety (TAG-Food Safety), a fellow of International Academy of Food Science and Technology, Vice-President of Chinese Society of Toxicology, Director of the Food Authenticity and Traceability Association of the China Institute of Food Science and Technology, Deputy Director of Public Health of Chinese Medical Association, Standing Member of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association.

In 1983 Professor Wu graduated from Nanjing Medical College and, in 1997, received a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Food Safety from the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine. Professor Wu serves on numerous domestic and international food safety committees such as the FAO/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA), USP Food Ingredient Expert Committee (FCC), Scientific Committee of Food Safety Commission of the State Council of PR China, Scientific Committee of Food Safety for Hong Kong Special Government of PR China, Chief Technology Officer of China National Food Safety Risk Assessment Committee.

As the director of the food contaminant subcommittee of the China Reviewing Committee on National Food Safety Standards and the head of the Chinese delegation of Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food, he is involved in the drafting of food safety standards for food contaminants, chaired the draft working group on Codex maximum limit of inorganic arsenic in rice internationally and China National Standard. As chair of the Panel on Selecting List of Non-Food Ingredients Illegally Added in Food, and member of Food Ingredients International Adulterants Expert Panel, he received an award for Outstanding Contribution to USP Standard. Prof Wu is also a member of several journals, Editorial Advisory Board for food and environmental science, and preventive medicine and has published 500 Scientific papers, with H index 90..