Independent Expert

As a food chemist and consulting engineer, I am available to provide private expert reports and opinions within the scope of my expertise. 
 

My areas of expertise

• Novel foods
• Speciality foods (formerly ‘dietary foods’)
• Foods for special medical purposes / balanced diets
• Substances of nutritional significance
• Additives and enzymes
• Demarcation issues – medicinal products / medical devices

I use my expertise to support my clients in a variety of ways:

• Assistance with decisions regarding product positioning
• Evaluation of scientific data to substantiate nutrition-related claims (health claims, intended use in balanced diets, bioavailability)
• Assessment of the legality of voluntary claims (clean labelling, technological properties, comparative claims)
• Project management, including representation before regulatory authorities

Online platforms, retail or pharmaceutical wholesle increasingly ask for expert opinions about the marketability of foodstuffs. Also for customs these documents are important for the classification of produts to be imported from Third Countries like nowadays also from the UK. 

These documents, often called "free sales certificates" are official documents. Depending on the Member State it is individually regulated who is allowed or appointed to issue these documents. In Austria the so-called  "LebensmittelgutachterInnen" (food experts) accord. to § 73 LMSVG and in Germany publicly certified and sworn experts for food chemistry as well as official experts for control tests in accord. to Article 43 LFGB are accepted. As needed I consult competent colleagues from my network.

Depending on your individual need we can clarify which type of information, documents, and - if necessary - test reports should be prepared.

Consulting engineers are subject to the trade regulations in Austria (in particular §§ 134 and 33 GewO 1994). The profession is regulated and therefore only possible with proof of the corresponding qualifications.
In addition, consulting engineers undertake to follow the professional association's code of conduct. This guarantees objective, careful and independent advice for the benefit of the client.