Prof. Carmen Maria Ferrer Amate

About

Since 2004, Dr. Ferrer has worked as a researcher at the EU Reference Laboratory for Pesticide Residues in Fruits and Vegetables, EURL-FV, at the University of Almería. Her main lines of work are the analysis of pesticide residues in food, development and validation of analytical methods and quality control in the lab. She is responsible for the organisation and evaluation of EU proficiency tests in fruits and vegetables. She is also member of the European Committee for Standardisation Working Group 3 (CEN/TC 275/WG 3 Pesticides) and, since 2011, she is coordinator of the EU document "Analytical Quality Control and Method Validation Procedures for Pesticide Residues Analysis in Food and Feed (SANTE/11312/2021v2)".