Laurent LALOUX
LALOUX Laurent
Food safety laboratory manager
ANSES - French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety
Laboratory for Food safety, Maisons-Alfort and Boulogne-Sur-Mer locations
14, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, F-94701 Maisons-Alfort Cedex
After obtaining a Master of Food science and Engineering from the Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences (AgroParisTech) in Paris, Laurent LALOUX was in charge in 1991 of a scientific Unit on Quality and Hygiene of Dairy Products in the National veterinary and food study center (CNEVA).
In 1998, this center was merged to the French Agency for Food Safety (AFSSA) where he was involved in the scientific steering of a team of 28 engineers, scientists and technicians working on composition, nutrition, hygiene, microbiology and sensory analysis of dairy products.
In this role, he developed a strong expertise in international or European committees; Member of the French delegation to the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Milk and Milk Products, member or president of several expert groups from three joint standardization bodies IDF/ISO/AOAC, member of the French delegation to the European Union, Directorate-General for Agriculture, DG VI, expert group "milk and milk products', Expert at the European Court of Auditors in analytical disputes in the context of commercial transactions.
Since 2007, he is head of the laboratory for food safety, French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety, in Maisons-Alfort (Paris area) and Boulogne-Sur-Mer (in the North of the country, first French economic center for seafood), managing a lab of 140 people involved in food safety, detection, epidemiology and monitoring of food biological and chemical hazards; Bacteria, viruses, parasites, toxins, pesticides, heavy metals, microplastics and nanomaterials.
In particular, the laboratory hosts many reference laboratory mandates at National (13) and European level (2). The laboratory is the European Union Reference Laboratories "Listeria monocytogenes" and "Coagulase Positive Staphylococcus" for EC DG Health.