Professor Dr Yongning WU is born in Jiangsu, China on October 06,1962. e-mail: wuyongning@cfsa.net.cn; yongning.wu@qub.ac.uk Prof Dr Wu is Chief Scientific Officer of the China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment CFSA), Co-Director of Food Safety Research Unit, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, Head of WHO Collaborating Center of Food Contamination Monitoring (China), Fellow of International Academy of Food Science and Technology, Vice-President of the Chinese Society of Toxicology, President of the Food Authenticity and Traceability Association and Standing Council Member of the China Institute of Food Science and Technology, Standing Council Member of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, Deputy Director of Public Health of Chinese Medical Association, Deputy Director of Allergy Medicine of the Chinese Research Hospital Association. He graduated from Nanjing Medical College in 1983, then from the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine for MPH and obtained a PhD degree in Nutrition and Food Hygiene in 1997. Prof Dr. WU served as a member of several Food Safety Committees. For example, internationally, WHO the Technical Advisory Group on Food Safety (TAG - Food Safety, 2020-), FAO/WHO Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA, from 2007), and WHO the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (STAG - AMR, 2019-2020), and, nationally, USP Food Ingredient Ex.