Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in Nordic Countries

Dr. Veslemøy Andersen graduated from the Department of Microbiology at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her thesis was about studies of the outer membrane proteins of the bacteria Moraxella nonliquefaciens. She worked as a Microbiologist / Research Scientist at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo.

Dr. Eirin Marie Skjøndal Bar holds a Ph.D. In Engineering Design and Materials from the Department of Engineering Design and Materials at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her thesis titled Advanced Food Processing Equipment Design for a sustainable Salmonid Fish Industry in Norway were written with focus on how design of food processing equipment is affecting the possibility of improving the sustainability of food production and food products. At present, she is working as a research scientist at SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, an independent research institution. Research interests are within the field of sustainable food processing and production, food processing equipment design and development, sustainable innovation and knowledge transfer, hygienic design and automation of food processing.

Dr. Gun Wirtanen graduated from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1988 and received her doctoral degree in 1996. She is an external lecturer in process hygiene at the University of Helsinki from 2001 onwards. Gun Wirtanen is or has been board member of the professional organisations such as the R3Nordic Association in Contamination Control and Cleanroom Technology, the Society of Food Sciences (ETS ry; in Finland), Food Hygiene Group & European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group (EHEDG) Executive Committee. She has been Senior Research Scientist and Senior Expert at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland from 1988 to 2013. She was Associate Professor in Hygienic design and cleaning operations at Technical University of Denmark (DTU), National Food Institute from November 2014 to April 2016. Gun Wirtanen coordinated Finnish, Nordic and European projects, including SAFOODNET (EU) 2006- 2009; the Nordic projects "Sanitation of dairies", 1994-96, "Evaluation of cleaning agents and disinfectants for use in dairies: methods and mechanisms" 1997-2000 and "DairyNet: Hygiene Control in dairies" 2001-2004. Gun Wirtanen has been an external evaluator of four international doctoral theses, opponent of one international doctoral thesis, supervised three doctoral, twelve Master and six Bachelor theses. She has written more than 350 publications (in English, Finnish and Scandinavian languages) as well as editing proceedings for the annual R3Nordic symposia. Recent publication: Biofilm risks. In: Handbook of Hygiene Control in the Food Industry, 2nd ed., Elsevier, 2016 (in press).