The Council of Ministers announced this Tuesday that Ana María López-Santacruz Serraller will continue to hold the position of executive director of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition (Aesan).
According to the Council's own references, López-Santacruz Serraller has held this responsibility since October 2024. Between 2020 and 2024, she was in charge of the National Food Center, a laboratory integrated into Aesan since the agency's launch in 2002.
The CNA is designated in Spain as the National Reference Laboratory for 19 of the 26 laboratory networks established at the European level under Regulation (EU) 625/2017 on official controls.
In 2018, she took over the coordination and direction of the Agri-food Laboratories of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, focused on agri-food quality, the fight against food fraud, and food safety in primary agricultural production.
Her career at Aesan began in 2007, where she spent 11 years in the Contaminants Management Service, developing legal regulations and other risk management tools (good practice guides, consumption recommendations, etc.) both nationally and internationally (European Commission, Codex Alimentarius). Previously, between 2004 and 2007, she worked for three years as an analyst at the Exterior Health Laboratory of Vigo.
A career civil servant of the Corps of Official Pharmacists, she holds a degree in Pharmacy (2002) and a doctorate in Pharmacy (2012), both from the Complutense University of Madrid (2002), and also has a diploma in Health (2006).