Project Team

Prof. Dr.Olga Yakubchak

Prof. Dr.Olga Yakubchak

Project Leader

DrSc and Professor in Veterinary sciences. Has long-term research and teaching experience in food quality and safety assessment. Has practical experience in implementation of international and European standards into Ukrainian system of standards and practice. She had also served as expert or consultant at national institutions (member of technical commission 93/3 "Control of food safety", National Codex Alimentarius Commission of Ukraine (2006-2015)). She has a certificate (No: UA/009/000016) in “Food Safety Management according HACCP” (in accordance with the Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004). In 2008 she was the participant from Ukraine in Better training for safer food (BTSF) course of The Health and Consumers DG of the EC “Auditing HACCP System” covering European food and feed law, animal health and welfare and plant health rules. The three last academic years she elaborated and implemented the obligatory lecture courses for masters’ students in “Analysis of microbiological risks in food and forage”, “The system of food and forage safety”, “Official audit system of ensuring the safety of food and forage”.

Dr. Mariia Galaburda

Dr. Mariia Galaburda

Coordinator of the project

PhD in Biological sciences. 15 Years Experience in research and teaching in food risk assessment approaches. She is an assistant professor in the National University of Life and Environmental Science. 7 years lecturing experience for English-speaking students in food safety and quality. She is an active participant of European educational programs and International research programme (NATO CLG (SA LST.CLG977291), Dutch-Ukrainian project Infomoloko, trainings under the Twinning projects “Support for the Ukrainian Veterinary Services in enhancing the Legal and Technical Aspects of Food Safety Control System”, project EuropAid/114025/C/SV/UA at Workshop on EU requirements for Import of Animal Products. Reported at the international seminar "EU requirements to imports of products of animal origin" on "Compliance with the EU requirements in the field of quality and safety of dairy products". She completed the Inspector Training Course of Bureu Veritas for “Food Safety Management: HACCP Principles and ISO 22000:2005” (Certificate No: UA/034/00052) and has experience of auditing food enterprises.

Dr. Ruslan Bilyk

Dr. Ruslan Bilyk
Team member, expert in organic farming and inspection


PhD in Veterinary and Sanitary Examination. Experience in Food quality and safety and elaboration, implementation of standards, procedures, instructions, orders, regulations. Participated in European educational programs Dutch-Ukrainian project Infomoloko, trainings under the Twinning projects “Support for the Ukrainian Veterinary Services in enhancing the Legal and Technical Aspects of Food Safety Control System”.

Was engaged in carrying out courses for implementation of GLP, GMP at the Institute of Graduate Studies of National Agricultural University of Ukraine. Expert of organic farming in the project of Swiss Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL),

Facilitator Dairy,Swiss-Ukrainian Project «Organic Market Development in Ukraine», Production Inspector of «Organic Standard» Ltd.