Women in BioCop - Biographies
Organisation: RIKILT � Institute of Food Safety
Country: The Netherlands
Tina Zuidema MSc. has been with RIKILT for 13 years and in this period she has been involved in a range of research projects. Topics of research projects involve analytical method development ranging from dioxins and pesticides to veterinary drugs, pharmaco-kinetic studies, ecotox-studies and in-vitro studies concerning tissue-bound residues, both as researcher as well as project manager. She has considerable experience and expertise in a variety of residue analytical techniques, especially gas chromatography, liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry and as study director of GLP research projects.
At present she is the deputy cluster manager of the veterinary research group at RIKILT and project manager of several method development and laboratory quality projects and in that respect responsible for the accreditation of methods for residue analysis of veterinary drugs, growth promoting agents in tissues and animal feed.
In BioCop she is involved in the supervising of LC/MS/MS analyses of fluoroquinolone incurred sample materials.