Presentation av föredragshållare vid seminariet Can you eat the vegetables?!

Petra är statsinspektör vid Livsmedelsverket och hör till trotjänarna på myndigheten, har arbetat där sedan 2006.

Hon är mark-växtagronom i botten och disputerade 2004 på en avhandling i biogeofysik om processer som påverkar upptaget av kadmium i grödor från slamgödslad jord. Sedan 2016 är hon samordnare för kontrollprogrammet för hälsoskadliga ämnen i livsmedel med gränsvärden exempelvis tungmetaller, dioxiner, mögeltoxiner och PFAS

Hon utbildar och ger kontrollmyndigheter i livsmedelskontrollen och livsmedelsföretag stöd i deras kontroll och egen kontroll av dessa ämnen.

Charlotta arbetar med förorenade områden på SGI, sedan 2016. Hon jobbar som forskare i miljökemi och arbetar med frågeställningar kopplat till riskbedömning och rehabilitering av förorenade områden.

Hennes specialområde är metaller; utlakning, fastläggning, speciering, (bio)tillgänglighet mm.

Kirk Scheckel is a soil scientist by training and currently serves as the Associate Director for Science in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response.

Dr. Scheckel’s research focus for the past 29 years is solving fundamental issues regarding elemental speciation in soils, sediments, water, plants, and waste materials via advanced, molecular-level spectroscopic techniques coupled with macroscopic kinetic and thermodynamic laboratory studies and field research to elucidate reaction mechanisms that influence fate, transport, reactivity, mobility, bioavailability, and toxicity of elements in the natural environment leading to effective and economical remediation/use strategies.

The goal of his research is the adoption of multidisciplinary approaches to study the biogeochemistry and bioavailability of contaminants for in-situ treated soils, advancing our ability to interpret and predict human health risk and fate/transport of contaminants in soils. He has published over 220 journal articles and is a Fellow in two professional societies.

Matt Lambert is an environmental chemist in the Science Policy Branch of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund Program Office. He writes technical and policy guidance for the Superfund remedial program and provides training and technical support to EPA staff on site characterization, risk assessment, and remediation. Most recently, he has been working on lead risk assessment, the assessment of bioavailability for human health and ecological risks, the assessment and remediation of contaminated sediments, the assessment and use of background data, and geospatial analyses.

He is co-chair of the Technical Review Workgroup – Bioavailability Committee, a member of the Technical Review Workgroup – Lead Committee, and a member of the Contaminated Sediments Technical Advisory Group.

Prior to joining EPA, Matt was an assistant scientist at Sea Education Association, teaching general oceanography. Matt has an M.Sc. in Chemical Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island and a B.A. in Marine and Freshwater Sciences from Colgate University.

Maud Le Bel holds the title of Geological Engineer, specializing in Environmental Science and Technology, awarded by the National higher school of geology in Nancy, member of National Polytechnique institute of Lorraine (France). She has 18 years of experience in soil expertise and risk assessment at SPAQυE. She has contributed to improving threshold values and drafting good practices guides, which now form the basis of Walloon legislation of contaminated sites and soils management.

Daily, she oversees or writes final evaluations for sites remediated by SPAQυE, advises and shares her expertise with investigation and remediation teams or her risk assessment colleagues.

After leading the LEGUMAP project in 2006-2007, she has been working since 2018 on the SANISOL project, funded by the Walloon administration, in partnership with the University of Liège-Gembloux Agro-Bio-Tech, SPAQuE, ISSeP (Public Service Scientific Institute), Catholic University of Louvain, and the non-profit Espace-Environnement, as well as the laboratories of the Province of Liège and the Requasud network. This project aims to create, then refine and improve an online tool that provides pragmatic recommendations to gardeners who grow fruits and vegetables in potentially contaminated soils.