Mrs. Katariina Rautalahti National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health, Finland

Mrs. Rautalahti is a Director of the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health (Valvira) in Helsinki, Finland. She obtained her MSc degree in environmental sciences (1982) in Kuopio, Finland. Mrs. Rautalahti helped establish the Finnish GLP monitoring system and led the Finnish GLP monitoring programme from 1990 to 2009.... read moreShe has experience in regulatory assessment of safety studies of chemicals and pesticides and also in test facility inspections under GLP. She has been a member of many different national regulatory committees. She has also taken part in many OECD or EU meetings, working groups and workshops concerning GLP and/or chemicals control and has participated in many international GLP events as well as OECD training courses as a speaker.