I have focused during my whole veterinary medicine career on food safety. I graduated 1997 (DVM) from the University of Helsinki after which I have consequently deepened my academic and professional skills in food safety management both from the viewpoint of official control and food businesses. I defended my thesis on control of Listeria monocytogenes in food industry in 2004.
Since then, I have sought for challenges both in academia and food safety administration to broaden my understanding in food safety management. At present I am a professor in risk management in food safety at the Department of Food Hygiene and Environmental Health in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki. My goal in research is to increase science-based food control in order to understand how food control systems can decrease foodborne illnesses, prevent food crime and contribute to a sustainable food chain.
I got my PhD in 2025 and have worked as an University lecturer since then. My doctoral dissertation dealt with public health impacts of food control. My research focuses on food control. I graduated as a DVM in 2020 and MSc (statistics) in 2011.
I am a doctoral researcher, and my research objectives are to I) investigate how the amount of inspections affects food business operators’ compliance with legislation II) study how the amount of inspections affects food business operators’ compliance motivation and III) investigate why there is regional variation in the amount of inspections provided in Finland. The research material consists of inspections reports, questionnaire studies and interviews with food business operators and local food control units.
I am a veterinarian and graduated from the University of Helsinki in 2004. I specialized in Public Health Care in 2018. I started writing my PhD thesis in Janne Lunden´s group in autumn 2019.
My research goal is to find new strategies for Food Control to cope with those Food Business Operators (FBO) that repeatedly receive the worst grades at Food Control inspections. With these new strategies the weakest FBOs could be motivated to improve their own risk control or forced to follow the regulations, which would result in better food safety. I have worked for a long time in municipal food control, so I think my research topic is very inspirational.
During my free time I enjoy spending time with my family, sports and visiting our summer house.
Food control inspections are disclosed in Finland as well as in many other countries. The disclosure systems aim at increasing food safety and consumer transparency. Jenni has studied the Finnish disclosure system Oiva to elucidate the impact of the system on food safety and food businesses. She has also studied the consumer intentions based on Oiva reports in Finland and Smiley reports in Denmark. The material consists of tens of thousands of Oiva-inspection reports, questionnaire studies and focus group interviews with inspectors and food operators.
I study long term food control inspection outcomes and possible factors affecting the outcomes (such as targeted control interventions and applied control approaches). I also study pressure on food control officials and whether it affects food control. The research material includes inspection reports, questionnaire studies and interviews with municipal food control officials.
I work as a part-time doctoral researcher in the Food Control Research Group. I graduated as a veterinarian (DVM) from the University of Helsinki in 2017. My interest in food control is particularly related to the role of legislation and control in ensuring food safety.
The topic of my doctoral research is the use of coercive measures and administrative sanctions under the Food Act from the perspective of food safety and good governance. I analyse how the competent authorities in Finland employ the penalty payments and the coercive measures heavily interfering with the FBOs rights to operate. The aim is to determine the risk-based nature, justification, and consistency of the use of penalty payments and strong coercive measures, as well as to assess the amount of the penalty payments