Dr. Lei Bao received 2012 AOAC Fellow Award

Dr. Lei Bao received 2012 AOAC Fellow Award

      A 2012 Fellow Award was presented to Dr. Lei Bao for her many contributions to the association. Bao is currently Director and Scientific Leader of Central Laboratory at Shandong Bureau, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of People’s Republic of China (AQSIQ), in Qingdao, China, on Feb, 2012. Prior to that time, she was Director, National Reference Mycotoxins and Marine Toxins Laboratory, AQSIQ.  She has been responsible for food safety analysis and monitoring, proficiency testing, methods development and validation for 12 years. In 2011, she was nominated as Senior Advisor, Committee for Standardization, AQSIQ; and Voting Member, Food Safety Analytical Committee, Council for Science, AQSIQ. She received 2011 AQSIQ’s Outstanding Scientist Award, 2010 Shandong Provincial Outstanding Woman Staff Award, 2009 Shandong Provincial Outstanding Youth Award, and five AQSIQ’s Scientific Prizes. She received her Ph.D. from College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China in 2009.

Photo 1 Dr. Stan Bacler (right 1), president of AOAC INTERNATIONAL, presented 2012 Fellow Award to Dr. Lei Bao

      Bao has been a highly active member of AOAC. She currently serves as president of AOAC China Section and was instrumental in bringing AOAC closer to the Chinese analytical community. Currently Bao is a voting Member of AOAC Marine and Freshwater Toxins Task Force, member of AOAC Mycotoxin Community, and voting Member of AOAC Chemical Contaminants & Residues in Food Community. She served as member of the Editorial Board of AOAC INTERNATIONAL. She also chaired AOAC Annual Meeting Symposiums for Marine Toxins in 2009 and 2010, and co-chaired whey:casein ratios working group for the for the AOAC Stakeholder Panel on Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals (SPIFAN) in 2012. In addition, Bao organized and chaired the SPIFAN preparatory meeting in China, actively involving Chinese scientists in whey protein method discussion and submission. She has been serving as Study Director for the study “Determination of Afatoxins B1, B2, G1,and G2 in Olive Oil, Peanut Oil, and Sesame Oil.” As part of the project, Bao invited 17 international collaborators from China, the United States, European Commission, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Argentina to participate in the collaborative study.

Photo 2  2012 Fellow Award Winner (from left to right, MARY LEE JANE WEITZEL，Canada; JOE BOISON，Canada; OLIVER O. BENNETT, JR，USA; Lei Bao, China; ANA GAGO-MARTINEZ, Spain.）

      Bao has shared her knowledge and expertise internationally. She served as Asia Representative for the International Society for Mycotoxicology in 2007, Advisory Board Member for the 6th World Mycotoxin Forum (WMF) in 2010, and Chinese delegation member for the Codex Committee on Food Contaminants (CCCF) at the Fifth and Sixth sessions. Bao was nominated as Scientifc Committee Member for when WMF meets IUPAC in 2012. She received a Ph.D. from the College of Marine Life Science, Ocean University of China, in 2009.

Photo 3 2012 AOAC Awards published at Inside Laboratory Management