Mr. Arne Duebecke
Safety, quality and authenticity of honey, fruit juices, herbs, spices and other foodstuffs. Development of supply chain for honey in Ghana. Supporting development of monitoring plans for animal products to be exported to EU.
Arne Duebecke, born in Braunschweig, Germany, obtained his degree in Environmental Sciences from the Carl-von-Ossietzky-University in Oldenburg, Germany in 2002. The following years he worked at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment and the Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology in the area of biogeochemistry before he changed to the realm of food sciences in 2008 by joining Quality Services International (QSI) laboratories in Bremen, Germany. At QSI he worked on pyrrolizidine, tropane and ergot alkaloids in honey and other bee products as well as plant materials, including tea (Camellia sinensis), herbs and spices. During that period he took different roles in project management, research & development and quality management. In 2013 he moved the focus to the verification of authenticity and detection of adulteration of foodstuffs. The methods employed comprised enzymatic approaches, SIRA, HPLC, LC-MS, HRMS, NMR and multivariate statistics. In 2017 Arne took the lead of the newly founded Tentamus Center for Food Fraud (TCF²). Since 2022 he is also managing director of Tentamus‘ juice lab, Chelab Dr. V. Ara GmbH & Co. KG, in Hemmingen, Germany. He presented latest QSI, Chelab and TCF² research at many international conferences and also prepared a number of publications for trade journals and peer-reviewed journals. He is member of the GDCh (German Chemical Society), AOAC International inlcuding AOAC Africa Section and IAFP (International Association for Food Protection). His current project is aiming at developing the honey supply chain in Ghana to enable young women and men to increase their livelihood through beekeeping.