Georges Bergen
Georges Bergen has been working in the field scientific and regulatory affairs for
the better part of 20 years. Starting his career at Hoffmann La Roche, he moved
on to spend the next 14 years as a consulting toxicologist and project manager
within Cantox Health Sciences (now Intertek). There he worked on all aspects of
the GRAS process, from the design and placement of safety studies, interface with
regulators and clients alike, risk assessment, to writing the final dossiers for
expert panel review. Having gained invaluable corporate experience working for
PepsiCo, Georges more recently joined DSM Nutritional Products in 2013, as a
Senior Manager for regulatory affairs, supporting the North American Health and
Human Nutrition team based in Parsippany, NJ. He has experience in both US and
Canadian regulatory affairs as relates to both the food and supplement spaces.
He provides guidance and expertise to the DSM sales and technical marketing
teams, customers, and colleagues at DSM’s corporate offices globally. Among his
responsibilities is the monitoring of trends from a regulatory perspective,
including the interface between government and industry, as these relate to
obtaining and maintaining GRAS status for the broader DSM portfolio of
functional ingredients.