NEW EFSA DIRECTOR FRENCH HEALTH EXECUTIVE GESLAIN-LANÉELLE
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FRENCHWOMAN is to take the vacant top job at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), replacing Briton Geoffrey Podger. Mrs Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle will be the new EFSA executive director; she is currently regional and interdepartmental director for agriculture and forestry for the Ile de France region, (which includes Paris). Mrs Geslain-Lanéelle is a senior member of France's powerful food establishment, having been director-general of food at her national ministry of agriculture and fisheries. EU health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou ...
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