Books By Gerhard Heinemeyer - Author

Gerhard Heinemeyer (MD) is a clinical pharmacologist and toxicologist. He has been worked for many years in the field of exposure assessment, as the head of the unit “exposure assessment and exposure standardisation” in the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin (Germany). In 2014, he retired from that position. He took part as an expert in numerous international expert groups at WHO, OECD, EFSA and the European Commission, in particularly the EFSA CONTAM panel, the REACh Implementation Project 3.2 (chemical safety report) as he joined the PERFOOD Project in the 7th EU Framework program. His work at BfR comprised all aspects of consumer exposure, particularly food exposure, exposures via use of consumer products and exposure in the context of the REACh regulation. Under his lead, BfR started the national food consumption survey for children (KIESEL Study) and the first national German total diet study. He also inaugurated a pilot study that evaluated consumer behaviour. His work is complemented by hi