About the authors

Karin Verzijden

Karin is a Dutch attorney-at-law involved in the boutique life sciences law firm Axon Lawyers in Amsterdam as of its start in 2011. Her interest in food legislation stems from a combination of professional involvement and a personal interest in food. Professionally, Karin assists companies in licensing and R&D deals focusing on the tech side of food. Karin also has specific expertise relating to novel foods, food labeling and to health and nutrition claims. Karin in involved as a speaker at international food conferences at a regular basis, in including in 2018 the Vitafoods conference in Geneva, the International Life Sciences Institutes’ seminar on nutrition for the healthy brain in Madrid and Food Matters Live in London. Personally, Karin enjoys food, both as a source of health and pleasure.

Jasmin Buijs

Jasmin cooperates with Axon Lawyers as an external legal counsel. Her core expertise is food law, which she specialized in at Wageningen University. Jasmin enjoys assisting start-ups and scale-ups bringing their innovative ideas to the market. She works on questions regarding novel foods, food supplements, advertising and labelling of food products and many more food-related cases. Jasmin also has broad experience in other life science regulatory areas and related legal fields, including sustainability claims, packaging law and food contact materials legislation. In her free time, Jasmin enjoys hiking, vegetable gardening and cooking.