Speaker

For the past 8 years, Dr. Sylvain Bintein has been employed at the European Commission in Brussels (Belgium) as the Team Coordinator of the program for registrations, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and the program for classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals (CLP) team in the Directorate General for the environment. Dr. Bintein leads the development of European legislation with regard to hazard and risk for human health and to the environment from chemicals. He also oversees guidance and monitors the implementation of the CLP and REACH regulations. Dr. Bintein has a PhD in environmental toxicology from the University of Metz (France), he is an engineer from the National School for Water and Environmental Engineering of Strasbourg (France), and is a member of the Scientific Committee to the United Nations Environment Program’s Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, where he was the drafter on risk management and risk profile dossiers for several industrial chemicals and pesticides. Dr. Bintein is also a member of the Chemicals Management Plan (CMP) Science Committee of the Government of Canada