Register of Interest

In line with FSA policy and established good practice for accessing external expertise, Scientific Advisory Committee members are required to declare any personal or non-personal interests which represent a real or potential conflict in respect of general or specific aspects of work undertaken. Interests will be managed in accordance with the FSA’s policy and guidance.

If members have interests not specified in these notes, but which they believe could be regarded as influencing their advice or other work for FSA, they should declare them. However, members are not under any obligation to search out interests of which they might reasonably not be aware. For example, either through being unaware of all the interests of family members, or of not being aware of links between one company and another.

Professor Bill Keevil (Chair)

Personal:>

• Direct employment: University of Southampton
• Membership: American Academy of Microbiology, Royal Society of Biology, Royal Society of Public Health, BSI Committees

Non-Personal:

• Various research grants from public and private sector

Ms Claire Tomaso

Personal:

• Direct employment: London Borough of Enfield – employed as an EHO/manager 1990-to date
• Middlesex University lecturing on Env. Health Degrees Feb 23- to date
• Consultancy: Training for ALEHM’s, CIEH and FSA Wales. May 22 – to date. 
• Some consultancy work for private food businesses and LA’s  via CT Food Safety, Abacus management and Hygenysis.  Feb 22 – to date
• Membership: Current Membership of CIEH

Non-Personal:           

• Nil

Mr Andrew MacLeod

Personal:           

• Direct employment: Argyll & Bute Council
• Consultancy: FSS SEAFISH (DEFRA)                                   
• Membership: Lead Officer of Argyll & Bute Council.
• Other personal interests: Ecology, River pollution 

Non- personal

• Nil

Dr Rohini Manuel

Personal:

• Direct employment: Employee UK Health Security Agency                
• Membership: Nil

Non-personal:           

• Grants:  Research funding from public and private sector       

Dr Wayne Anderson

Personal:

• Direct employment: Food Safety Authority Ireland (FSAI)
• Membership: International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Food (ICMSF) and IFST

Non-personal:

• Nil      

Dr Jane Gibbens

Personal:           

• Direct employment: Nil
• Consultancy: Fee paid work from organisations and consultancies seeking veterinary epidemiological advice, including membership of the Defra bovine TB Partnership
• Membership: Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, European College of Veterinary Public Health, Association of Government Veterinary Surgeons, British Veterinary Association

Non-personal:

• Nil

Professor Francis Butler

Personal:           

• Direct employment: University College Dublin
• Consultancy: Fee paid work from relevant organisations and consultancies; occasional fee-paying consultancy with the Saudi Food and Drug Authority in relation to risk assessment and occasional food safety consultancy with the Irish Food Industry
• Board member: Food Safety Authority for Ireland
• Membership: Nil

Non-personal:           

• Grants: Partial industry support for research project on dairy products safety (Dairy industry); recent (2022) grant relating to biotoxins in shellfish (Irish Ministry of Agriculture)

Dr Edward Fox

Personal:           

• Direct employment:  University of Northumbria             
• Membership: International Association for Food Protection, Australian Society for Microbiology

Non-personal:           

• Grants: Research funding from public and private sector

Mr Martin Briggs

Personal:

• Direct employment: Eurofins Forensics Testing
• Consultancies: 

  KIWA: Auditor for UFAS Scheme

  NSF: Auditor for GAFTA Standards

  UKAS: Technical Assessor for feed assurance schemes 

  AIC (Agricultural Industries Confederation): fee paying consultancy. 

  Anitox: fee paying consultancy.

  2Agriculture: fee paying consultancy.

  Progressus Agrischools: fee paying training & consultancy              
• Membership: 

  AIC UFAS Working & Review Groups Member 

  AIC Feed Manufacturing Committee Member

  Society of Feed Technologists Member

Non-personal:

Nil      

Dr Nicol Janecko

Personal:

• Direct employment: Quadram Institute, Bioscience, Norwich
• Membership: Nil

Non-personal:

• Grants: Campylobacter in the food chain research      

Professor Linda Scobie

Personal:           

• Direct employment: Glasgow Caledonian University
• Consultancy: Axiom/Xenotherapeutics Plc, USA
• Membership: Nil

Non-personal:

• Grants: Food Standards Agency, Other research funding from public and private sectors

Prof Cath Rees

Personal:

• Direct employment: University of Nottingham
• Consultancy: PBD Biotech Ltd       
• Charitable Trustee: Applied Microbiology International (Member of Executive Committee)
• Membership: Applied Microbiology International, Microbiology Society
• Shareholder: PBD Biotech Ltd

Non-Personal:

• Grants: Research Funding in collaboration with industrial partners

Dr Dragan Antic

Personal:

• Direct employment: University of Liverpool employee 
• Consultancies and other fee-paid work: Consultancy through the University of Liverpool (2014 to present)
• Shareholding: Nil
• Membership: Diplomate of European College of Veterinary Public Health 

Non-Personal:

• Fellowships: Higher Education Academy

Prof Andrew Page

Personal: 

• Direct employment: Employed by Theiagen Genomics and provide bioinformatics consultancy for US state public health labs.

Non-Personal:

Nil

Dr Inaki Deza-Cruz

Personal:

• Direct employment: University of Surrey
• Other personal interests: Examiner of the Statutory Membership Examination at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

Non-Personal:

Nil

Dr Adri Bester

Personal:

• Direct employment: London South Bank University
• Consultancies and other fee-paid work: Auditor for the Safe and Local Supplier Approval Accreditation

Non-Personal

Nil 

Dr Roberto Vivancos

Personal:

• Direct employment: UK Health Security Agency (full time August 2023 / part-time from September 2023). University of Warwick (part-time from September 2023) University of Liverpool (Honorary from 2013)
• Clubs and other organisations: North West Venturers Yacht Club
  CAMRA (until 2022)
• Other personal interests: My father is a lemon grower in Spain

Non-Personal

Nil