THE ANALYST ANALYTIKEREN 1 GUARANTOR GARANT FOR FOR CONSUMER SIKKERHED FORBRUGERNES SAFETY THE ANALYST Eva Jørgensen has been a laboratory technologist since 1989 and has worked at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration's laboratory in Ringsted since 2006. At that time, she was, together with the rest of her colleagues, moved to the laboratory in Ringsted. After 18 years of exclusively analyzing fruit and vegetables for pesticide residue she received the opportunity of changing working tasks. 4 My daily work involves analyzing for the residue of veterinary medicines in different matrices. They are found in the intestines, muscles, urine and plasma from different types of animals using random checks. It is exciting work which I really like, says Eva Jørgensen. My job is important because I am part of a random checking system of our foodstuffs. That is where we find out whether they comply with the requirements laid down for what we can put in our mouths. It is a guarantee for consumers that what we eat is quite in order. I have undertaken the same analyses for a number of years, and that is why I have the experience of how these analyses are to be carried out correctly. It is other colleagues who further disseminate the results I come up with. They are very dependent upon my reporting back that everything is as it should be. That is why the guidelines for analysis have to be followed to the letter, says Eva Jørgensen. There is also a lot of responsibility linked to her work. You must be able to depend on the results of the analysis, and you can only do that if the work has been carried out 100% according to the guidelines. That is why Eva Jørgensen has to be able to document everything she does in detail. This means that she notes everything down in order to obtain quality assurance for the work undertaken, but she thinks that is interesting as well. I am also the person who can come up with a suggestion that the work process could be changed. Other persons who have no labora- My job is important because I am part of a random checking system of our foodstuffs tory experience can propose many changes, which in practice cannot be undertaken in a laboratory. That is where I can, with my daily practical experience, come up with a suggestion regarding changes; you get worthwhile experience from other analyses, says Eva Jørgensen. The best thing about her job is that it is diversified as well as being interesting. She spends a lot of time purifying the samples in the laboratory. In the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration they work in that way that the employee who initiates the test is also the one who finally finds and disseminates the results. I am also involved with the calculating part where you gain experience with technical instruments. I use a HPLC-MS which is specialized equipment. It is nice and satisfying that you analyze as well as find results. I think my job is diversified and interesting as well as being meaningful. And at the end of the day I can go home happy because I feel that I have not been wasting my time, says Eva Jørgensen. n 5 MEET 9 SPECIALISTS WHO ARE CREATING THE FUTURE THE DEV ELOPER THE IT SUPER USER DITOR THE QUALITY AU THE TECHNOLOGIST THE COORDINATOR THE LOGISTICIA N THE ANALYST THE TRAINER LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST EDUCATION THE WORLD CITIZEN CONTENTS A PROFESSION UNDERGOING CHANGE In Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK (DL-F) we know that our profession contains a vast number of exciting job opportunities. 03 Preface: A profession undergoing change 04 The Analyst: Guarantor for consumer safety 06 The Quality Auditor: Ensures that quality THE ANALYST ANALYTIKEREN 1 GUARANTOR GARANT FOR FOR CONSUMER SIKKERHED FORBRUGERNES SAFETY THE ANALYST Eva Jørgensen has been a laboratory technologist since 1989 and has worked at the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration's laboratory in Ringsted since 2006. At that time, she was, together w THE QUALITY AUDITOR ANALYTIKEREN 1 ENSURES THAT GARANT FOR QUALITY IS OF THE FORBRUGERNES SIKKERHED HIGHEST ORDER DITOR THE QUALITY AU When laboratory technologist, Susanne Jeppe sen, is doing her job at Novo Nordisk A/S in Bagsværd it is done for the most part at a desk and in front of a compute IT SUPER USER BRIDGE-BUILDER BETWEEN RESEARCH AND IT DEVELOPMENT Since Mads Molich completed his education as a laboratory technologist in 2006, he has for the most part not had two working days that are the same. Today he works at Novozymes A/S in Bagsværd as a scientific laboratory technologist o THE COORDINATOR FLAIR FOR ORGANISING AND GATHERING KNOWLEDGE THE COORDINATOR As a working environment and emergency and security coordinator Henriette Lerche no longer works in the laboratory. Her workplace is the long corridors and offices at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University on THE LOGISTICIAN SAY WHAT YOU NEED AND I'LL GET HOLD OF IT Laboratory technologist Heidi Irming is a buyer at DTU Biosustain, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability (CFB) in Hørsholm. She has recently been extremely busy in connection with the moving of DTU Biosustain to a completely THE TRAINER ANALYTIKEREN 1 THE LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST TEACHES THE DOCTORS OF THE FUTURE Thousands of young medical students have over the years become acquainted with Helle Dyhrfjeld Jensen's professional guidance in the laboratories of the Panum Institute in Copenhagen. Helle is employed as a pr THE DEVELOPER I LEARN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY Lene Odgaard Kamstrup is a laboratory technologist with the Danish-American company CMC Biologics A/S, CMC, in Søborg. The biotechnology company is a customer-based company. This means that they have many different customers which they undertake develop THE TECHNOLOGIST FROM ALARM CLOCKS TO ROBOTS Inge Lise Stripp Petersen has always enjoyed technology, IT and programming. Since she was little she has taken everything apart from alarm clocks to sewing machines. Today she is a laboratory technologist at Novo Nordisk A/S in the API Bio Analysis depa THE WORLD CITIZEN I participate in weekly Skype meetings with the Indian and Polish development departments ALL-ROUND JOB WITH AN INTER NATIONAL PROFILE Weekly Skype meetings with Indian engineers, visits to factories in Germany, France and India, courses in England and meetings with Japanese cust WORTH KNOWING ABOUT THE GENERAL EDUCATION SYSTEM WORTH KNOWING ABOUT FURTHER EDUCATION & TRAINING In Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK(DL-F) we are working on creating a transparent way through the education system. It can be in relation to mem bers, employers as well as the political system. In Dansk L ABOUT DANSK LABORANTFORENING/HK (DL-F) Dansk Laborant-Forening/HK (DL-F) is a cross-union association in HK. We organize approx. 10,000 members whose primary educational background is laboratory assistant, laboratory technologist, environmental engineer or environmental technologist; they are employ