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 After 20 years of research in the field of transfer and biotransformation of pollutants in the aquatic food chain, with a focus on fish, Jean-Pierre Cravedi has focused his research on food toxicology with special attention to the endocrine disruptors. This research is conducted within the MeX team of the TOXALIM Unit and is funded by several national (ANR, ANSES) and European (FP7 Bridge) contracts. Member of several national (HANDLE) and international (EFSA) boards, committees and expert working groups in the field of risk assessment of chemical contaminants in food, he is involved in characterizing the hazards of these substances and bringing the recommendations of the agencies into research issues. He participates regularly in the dissemination of key research findings of the Unit to the mass-media and the public, and is a key actor of the national French debate between science and society in the field of food safety.

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 PhD (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, 1979), joined INRA as a post-graduate researcher in 1980, where he conducted investigations on reproductive tract physiology and pharmacology in ruminant species until 1991. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Cornell University, New York College of Veterinary Medicine (1992-1993). Research Director (1995) and deputy director (1999-2006) at the Neuro-Gastroenterology & Nutrition Research Unit in Toulouse (INRA's Human Nutrition division), his major field of investigation during this period related to gastro-intestinal tract pathophysiology, visceral sensitivity and food safety. In 2003, he was appointed by the French Ministry of Research and Higher Education on request of the DG Research of the European commission as the French "National Contact Point" (NCP) for european research & development Framework Programmes 6 and 7, in the thematic priorities "Food Quality & Safety" (FP6-FOOD, 2003-2006) and "Food, Agriculture & Fisheries, and Biotechnology" (FP7-BIO, 2007-2013). He is member of several european expert groups on Food and Health research.

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 Professor of Physiology and Therapeutics at the Veterinary college of Toulouse, France (Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse), Pierre-Louis Toutain devoted most of his scientific career to the pharmacokinetics of veterinary drugs, with the search of relationships between exposure and effects (modeling approach called PK/PD) and relevant to hormones in domestic species, with the study of rates of hormone secretion and their physiological and/or pathophysiological regulation. He has held various institutional positions at ANSES (Chair of the Commission of marketing authorizations for veterinary drugs), INRA (UMR Director, Deputy Director of Animal Health), ANR (vice president of a committee to evaluate the program Contaminants, Ecosystems, Health) and so on. At international level, Pierre-Louis Toutain chaired the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology (ECVPT) which accredits veterinary specialists in the field and is the current vice president of the European Association for Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology (EAVPT).

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With a degree on Animal Biology, a Master of Science in ergonomics and physiology of labor, and a DUT on Health, Safety and Environment, Christophe Metge has a long history of occupational risk prevention at INRA, national (project manager) and local (Regional Prevention Officer Southwest) levels. Internal Auditor of the research support unit under the direct responsibility of INRA's Deputy General Director from 2009 to 2011, member of the management board of the SDAR (support to research service) at the INRA research center of Toulouse from 2007 to 2010, he has gradually converted to administrative functions before being hired as administrative and logistical manager of Toxalim in March 2011. Since then, at the unit's management team, he is working to formalize the integrated management of common services, in particular the group of administrative officers, and to set up dashboards on the financial and human resources of the research unit.

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