Opinion|Videos|June 9, 2026

Meeting The Panelists

The panelists introduce themselves and describe their expertise and experience in nitrosamine impurity research across consultancy, industry, academia, and toxicology.

Joe Lackey, Technical Manager at LGC Standards, opens the roundtable by welcoming the panel and inviting each expert to briefly introduce themselves. Each panelist outlines their professional background and describes how they first became involved in the nitrosamine field, covering a range of perspectives including consultancy, industry-based pharmaceutical development, academic analytical chemistry, and genetic toxicology. Together, the introductions establish the breadth of expertise represented on the panel and set the tone for the discussion that follows.

The discussion brings together Jason Brown, Principal Consultant at Brown Pharma Consulting Ltd, Maria Kristina Parr, a professor in pharmaceutical chemistry from the Freie Universität Berlin, Jörg Schlingemann, Director, Principal Expert Quality Control Systems at Merck Healthcare KGaA, and George Johnson, an associate professor at Swansea University.