Dr Salomon Sand

Salomon Sand is a risk assessor at the Swedish Food Agency (SFA), Uppsala, Sweden. He is an expert in quantitative chemical risk assessment, including the benchmark dose method. Salomon Sand coordinates work related to development of risk analytical methods at the Department of Risk and Benefit Assessment. This area of operation across units at the department aims to provide better access to relevant data and fit-for-purpose computational tools for assessing risks, benefits, and/or combined risk-benefit. Being part of the Department's Unit of Toxicology, he also provides scientific support and conducts risk assessments, in response to requests from risk management sectors at the SFA. Salomon Sand is an expert at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) where he has been a member of the EFSA panel on contaminants in the food chain since 2018. At EFSA, he is also part of the EFSA Scientific Committee (SC) working group on the benchmark dose method, and he was a member of the previous SC working group on risk-benefit assessment. Salomon Sand has been a visiting scientist at the University of Ottawa, Canada since 2007.