Vittorio Fattori

Vittorio Fattori PhD is a Food Safety Officer in the Agrifood Systems and Food Safety Division of FAO, where he is working both coordinating the foresight programme on emerging food safety issues, and providing scientific advice. In particular, some of his focus areas include: evaluating how new trends, and drivers of change can affect food safety in order to proactively respond to risks as well as optimize opportunities; working in the Secretariat of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) to provide scientific advice to the Codex Alimentarius, FAO Members and other UN Agencies (e.g. WFP) on food additives, contaminants and residue of veterinary drugs in food; providing technical guidance on food safety regulatory issues - including emerging issues. Before joining FAO, Vittorio Fattori has worked in research laboratories both in academia and private sector in the UK, Japan, and the USA. His research activities have focused on the assessment of food safety risks po