Kang Zhou

Food Safety Officer, Food Safety and Quality Unit, FAO

Speaker Biography

Dr Kang Zhou, is a Food Safety Officer work with Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) since February 2018. He is one of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) and ad hoc Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation of Risk Assessment on Food Allergens secretariats to provide risk assessment and scientific advice to Codex Alimentarius, to support the development of international guidelines and standards, and also transfer the technology to member countries for capacity development. He obtained his Bsc and PhD from China Agricultural University on food science and food biotechnology, while he was also a join-PhD in Institution of Food Research (Quadram Institute now) of UK. Before FAO, he worked with Sichuan Agricultural University as lecturer and then associated professor from 2011 to 2018.