Beijing Key Laboratory of Toxicological Research and Risk Assessment for Food Safety is established relies on Peking University School of Public Health, and was formally recognized by Beijing Science and Technology Commission in May 2011. The current director is Professor Weidong Hao, and the academic committee director is Professor Yongning Wu from National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment.
The overall orientation of the laboratory is to give play to the advantages of basic research and personnel training, become a talent cultivation center, a scientific research base and a technical support institution for food safety of the country and Beijing, and strive to contribute to the national and Beijing food safety regulation in the practical application of food safety. The main research directions are: 1, food safety evaluation technology; 2, toxicity, effects and mechanism of toxic and harmful substances in food and food ingredients; 3, food safety risk assessment system and its application.
The laboratory was accreditation by Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People’s Republic of China as inspection and test laboratory and food inspection agency, undertakes technical service of evaluating the safety of food, chemicals and pesticides, and evaluating the efficacy of functional food.
The laboratory staff mainly include professors engaged in nutrition and food hygiene, toxicology and laboratorial science and technology. Each professor has a research team comprising young teachers, doctors and masters. The laboratory has a total of 31 researchers, of which 12 are senior titles, 7 are deputy senior titles, and 8 are doctoral supervisors. The laboratory also hired five foreign visiting professors. The Laboratory keeps the number of doctor and master candidates at about 100.
In recent 5 years, the laboratory undertook 20 national research projects, 13 provincial and ministerial research projects, the funding was 33.45 million CNY. Published 394 research papers, of which 167 were SCI papers, and also published 15 monographs. Accessed to 10 provincial, ministerial and industrial level science and technology awards. Technical service contracts amount was of nearly 30 million CNY. Completed more than 200 functional tests and over 500 toxicological tests of food and functional food.
The laboratory is open to universities, research institutes and enterprises, attends to attract domestic and foreign counterparts to carry out scientific research and technological innovation activities in our laboratory. Conducted cooperation research projects with Ausnutria, Nestle, Roche, Jing Brand Co., Ltd., and Quan Jian Group, and cooperated with Pfizer and Unilever in the joint training programs of toxicology talent development.
Laboratory director: Weidong Hao
Email: whao@bjmu.edu.cn
Telephone: 010-82802352
Contact: Shuang Wu
Email: wushuang@bjmu.ed.cn
Telephone: 010-82335754
Address: Peking University School of Public Health, No. 38 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing
