Alberto Gimeno Curriculum Vitae

Chemical Engineer, he worked 12 years in Spain and 22 in Portugal as Quality Control Director for raw materials and mixed feeds, with special incidence in the mycotoxins area, in a mix feed factory and other enterprises, respectively.

In Portugal and from among these enterprises, he worked 10 years at SETNA PORTUGESA (SPANISH GROUP OF TECHNOLOGY AND ANIMAL NUTRITION), specialized in animal nutrition, quality control and applied research (techno-commercial area) and 3 years as Technical Director of Portuguese enterprise NUTECAL (NUTRITION AND FEEDER TECHNOLOGY), with similar activities as before mentioned.

During 12 years he is Technical Consultant in mycotoxins and feed/food mycotoxicology:

Technical Consultant (in mycotoxins and feed/food mycotoxicology) forSPECIAL NUTRIENTS, INC. (Miami, Florida U.S.A.) and other enterprises relationship with SPECIAL NUTRIENTS

Technical Consultant of Portuguese enterprise NUTECAL (NUTRITION AND FEEDER TECHNOLOGY), specialized in animal nutrition, quality control and applied research (techno-commercial area).

More than 22 years dedicated to applied research of fungistatics (mould inhibitors) and antioxidants agents (techno-commercial area).

Initiated his specialization in fungi and mycotoxins at the Agronomic Station at NOUCILLY, France.

Was adviser of four doctoral theses on mycotoxins, two in Spain and two in Portugal.

Was an advisor in the Commission for the Normalization of Analytical Methods of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, in Madrid (Spain), during a period of 5 years.

The mycotoxins multidetection method published by him in the Journal Association of Official Analytical Chemists and applied to the analysis of aflatoxins was official in Spain during more than 6 years (after the inter-laboratory collaborative study comparing two techniques, the one that was official in the European Economic Community and the other one the above referenced  proposed by him).

Collaborated 14 years with the International Agency for Research on Cancer World Health Organization) on Mycotoxin Check Sample Survey.

Organized and directed two collaborative studies (inter-laboratories) regarding the control of aflatoxins in raw materials and mixed feeds, one of them among Spanish laboratories and another one among laboratories of the different countries of the European Economic Community.

1.- Gave lectures:

36 in Spain
13 in Portugal
  1 in Egypt
  4 in Thailand
  4 in Malaysia
  4 in Indonesia
  1 in Austria
14 in Brazil
  5 in Chile
  5 in Peru
  5 in Cuba
  1 in Italy
  1 in Czech Republic
 50  in Mexico
   2 in Costa Rica
   2 in Guatemala
   1 in Republica Dominicana
   2 in Ecuador
   1 in USA

On the Animal Nutrition
   5 in Spain and 6 in Portugal.

Gave courses on Quality Control of Feeds and Mycotoxicology, in Spain and  Portugal (13 courses).

Gave a course on Chicken Fungi and Mycotoxins, as a guest of CESAC, (Centro de Sanidad Avícola de Cataluña) within the formation course that took place in Reus (Tarragona, Spain).

Gave a course regarding “The Methods of Analysis of Mycotoxins” in the II Conference – Salón de Fabricantes de Piensos del Mediterráneo at Reus (Tarragona, Spain).

Gave a course on “Fungi and Mycotoxins in Animal Nutrition”, in the Enterprise Group            NANTA S.A– NUTRECO – TROUW NUTRITION in Madrid-Spain.

Gave three courses on “Mycotoxins in Human Nutrition”, in the Technical University of Lisbon.

 3.- Publications

Five articles in the Journal  Association of Official Analytical Chemists of the United States of America.
                       
Two articles in the Selecciones Avícolas (Technical Journal of Spain).

Two articles in the Selecciones Avícolas (Technical Journal of Portugal).

One article in Avifac (Technical Journal of Spain).

Two articles in the Official Technical Journal of the Laboratorio Nacional de Investigação Veterinária of Portugal.
                       
One article in a Proceedings Book of IUPAC, in Austria.
                       
Two articles in the Hygia Pecoris (Technical Journal of Spain).
                       
One article in a Proceedings Book of the National Research Centre of Dokki, Cairo, Egypt.

Three articles in Proceedings Book of Symposiums of WPSA (The World’s Poultry Science Association) of Spain.
     
Fifteen articles in the Veterinary Technical Journal ALBEITAR, of Spain.

One article in the Veterinary Technical Journal CUNICUCULTURA, of Spain.

One article in the Veterinary Technical Journal SUINICULTURA, of Porugal.

One article in the Veterinary Technical Journal SUIS, of Spain.

One article in the Technical Journal of IACA, in Portugal.

One article in the Veterinary Technical Journal SUINICULTURA, of Portugal.

Two articles in the Technical Journal NUESTRA CABAÑA, of Spain.

One article in the Veterinary Technical Journal LOS PORCICULTORES Y SU ENTORNO, of  Mexico.

Two articles in the Veterinary Technical Journal LOS AVICULTORES Y SU ENTORNO, of Mexico

Six articles in the Veterinary Technical Journal ALBEITAR, of Portugal.

Two articles in Portal Veterinaria ALBEITAR, of Spain.

One article in the Technical Journal of England, INTERNATIONAL HATCHERY PRACTICE.

One article in the Technical Journal of Ecuador, AVICULTURA ECUATORIANA.

Two articles in the Technical Journal of Argentina, GRANOS.

Nine technical articles in the Web page of SPECIAL NUTRIENTS: www.mycotoxin.com

Forty- seven technical articles in the Web page of ENGORMIX: www.engormix.com   (Mycotoxins; in spanish, portuguese and english; technical articles)          

Three times Co-authored in articles on Mycotoxins published in the Revista Portuguesa de Ciencias Veterinarias and Proceedings Book of FOODBORNE ILLNESS and once in the Cientific Journal Food Additives and Contaminants.

3.2.- Regarding the control of Carotenes and Xanthophylls in Corn, Gluten Meal, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal and Marigold Meal, published one article in the Journal Association of Official Analytical Chemists of the United States of America. 

Carried out three trials (one in Spain and two in Portugal, at the Estação Nacional de Avicultura e Cunicultura de Vendanova) about the applied investigation of the use of adsorbent agents as mycotoxins detoxifiers.

With his applied research in the area of fungistatics (mould inhibitors) and antioxidants, launched the fungistatics in the Portuguese market under the brand names GIFUNG and GIFAX and the antioxidant GIOX, all of them distributed by the Portuguese company UPV (Unity Veterinary Production).

Afterwards and continuing with his applied research, launched the fungistatic FUNGISTOP, in its powder and liquid versions, and the antioxidant OXIOUT, all of them distributed in Spain and Portugal by the Spanish enterprise SETNA, and currently in Portugal by the enterprise NUTECAL. 

Participated in several Congress, from among them:

Was invited to participate in a meeting of EC,WHO/IPCS and FAO on Mycotoxins and Toxic Plant Components, which took place in the Instituto Superior de Agronomía, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Attended and collaborated in the 7th International Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology Division and 7th International Congress of Mycology Division, in Prague, Check Republic.

Attended and collaborated in the International Seminar of FUSARIUM Mycotoxins, Taxonomy and Pathogenicity, in Martina Franca (Italy). 

Note: Other Congresses that are not mentioned here, are included inside some of the several conferences previously mentioned. 

Published the third edition of the manual (in Spanish) entitled "Micotoxinas y Micotoxicosis en Animales y Humanos".

Published an article about “Mycotoxicosis in Rabbits” in the Chapter of Toxicology in the book ENFERMEDADES DEL CONEJO (2000). Ed. by Juan Maria Rosell, MUNDI-PRENSA LIBROS, S.A, Chapter 5, Vol. 1., pp.439-464.

Published a manual (in portuguese) entitled “Micotoxicoses em Avicultura, Controlo e Prevenção”.

Published a manual (in Spanish) entitled “Micotoxinas y Micotoxicosis en Animales y Humanos”.

See about the manual in www.engormix.com (Spanish section. Micotoxinas).    

Published a manual (Second Edition) (in English) entitled “Mycotoxins and Mycotoxicosis in Animals and Humans”. See about the manual in www.engormix.com (English section. Mycotoxins).