Experience and Expertise

Risk Analysis PFAS restriction under EU REACH

Martijn is co-author of the Annex XV report on PFOA/APFO restriction, titled “Analysis of the risks arising from the industrial use of Perfuorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and Ammonium Perfluorooctanoate (APFO) and from their use in consumer articles. Evaluation of the risk reduction measures for potential restrictions on the manufacture, placing on the market and use of PFOA and APFO.”

European Commission – DG Enterprise and Industry: Specific Contract 30-CE-0230115/00-70 (of implementing Framework Contract 30-CE-0220929/00-38)

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Global Product Compliance Strategy

As Director Regulatory Europe, Martijn led the team and held the responsibility for the regulatory (BPR, CLP, REACH) product compliance of biocidal and speciality chemical product portfolio of the organisation in Europe. 
As Global Director Regulatory Shared Sciences, Martijn led a multifunctional diverse team of (senior) experts and managers to cover Toxicology, Product Safety, Digitalisation and Labelling with direct reports in Europe, USA and China.
He assured alignment of the regulatory product compliance processes with the innovation process and quality management systems. 

Strategic Regulatory Digitalisation

To make full use of the added value of regulatory experts, Martijn developed the strategy and ensured funding for various digitalisation projects: 

  • Limit time-consuming questions from the business to the Regulatory Europe team: 
    Martijn developed a digital strategy to make existing registration status information on biocidal products readily available. Together with his team, he co-designed the webbased portal that shows the registration information. The detailed information is based on specific user queries (e.g. product name, product type, country of registration) and lead the implementation project;
  • Avoid unnecessary animal testing as well as and testing cost avoidance: Martijn developed and implemented the strategy to design a study data warehouse and fill this with extracted study reports. This data warehouse was designed by Unpaved according to regulatory toxicology expert input & requirements and developed by Vibes on an Azure cloud-based user-friendly platform that has an easy interface with all relevant ERP systems. This allows the toxicologists and all regulatory experts to easily access and query the relevant endpoints.  
Unpaved
Vibes

Digital Cosmetic PIF development strategy

As a Regulatory Toxicologist, Martijn was responsible in the digitalisation project of Product Information File (as per EU CosReg 1223/2009) for the cosmetic safety risk assessment algorithms and digitalisation of EU CosReg Annex data verification. Martijn lead the extraction commissioned to a Business Process Outsourcing company and ensured quality control.

Regulatory Leadership that adds value

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