Link to: Mandate
Mandate
Read about our purpose, mandate, articles of association and rules of procedure.
Link to: Organization
Organization
Who are the members, see our structural organization, the NMKL Board, and the secretariat.
NMKL was established in 1947 consisting of chemists, microbiologists, sensory analysts and statisticians from the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. NordVal International, reviewing and certifying proprietary methods, was established in 1999 and incorporated in NMKL in 2007. Food experts from the Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined NMKL 29 Aug 2022 and the name was changed to Nordic-Baltic Committee on Food Analysis.
NMKL is linked to Nordic Council of Ministers by EK-FJLS Food, and the NMKL secretariat is hosted by the Institute of Marine Research (Org. No. 971 349 077), in Bergen, Norway since Nov 2020.
Eystein Oveland (NO) is the NMKL Executive Director and head of the secretariat leading the daily operations since Nov 2020.
Janne Nieminen (FI) is the NMKL President and head of the NMKL Board since Sept 2024.
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