4^th International Food Safety, Quality & Policy Conference

Miro Smriga has obtained his PhD in Pharmaceuticals from the University of Tokyo (Japan) in 1997. He had worked as a Scientist and a Regulatory Manager of Ajinomoto Group in Japan, Europe and the USA. He has been deeply involved with food safety issues, evaluation of food additives, enzymes and safety of amino acids. Moreover, he has been the Scientific Secretary of “International Glutamate Technical Committee” (IGTC) since April 2015. His responsibilities included scientific project management and scientific issues pertinent to monosodium glutamate and amino acid safety as well as use. He has published 40 peer-reviewed articles in neurosciences, nutrition and toxicology and authored 7 patents. He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of the peer-reviewed Journal “Amino Acids”.