Benoît Labarbe is Head of “Tobacco and Related Products Assessment Unit” within the Risk Assessment Department of the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES). He holds a Masters of Engineering in Agronomy and a PhD in Food Science. He has been working during the past 25 years on food technology, ingredient formulation, plant metabolites, analytical chemistry, data mining and databases management issues, in private sector then at ANSES since 2009. Formerly Head of different scientific and administrative units, he has been in charge to set up and lead the Tobacco Team within the Agency since 2016 when it has been tasked by the French Ministry in charge of Health to handle product notifications pursuant to the transposition of the 2014/40/EU Tobacco Products Directive.