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Register of Interest

ACMSF Members Register of Interests

Last updated: 27 November 2023

Expert Register of Interests ACMSF 

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

Professor (AW) Dan Tucker (Deputy Chair)

Personal:

  • Direct employment: University of Cambridge, Fellow and Trustee, Pembroke College, Cambridge
  • Consultancy: Genus plc, Farming Partnership, WJW Tucker and sons       
  • Membership: Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, UK Pig Veterinary Association, UK Veterinary Public Health Association, European College of Pig Health Management, American Association of Swine Veterinarians

Non-Personal:           

  • Grants: Research funding to support pig clinical residency training programs (Zoetis Animal Health and Ceva Animal Health) 

Dr Gary Barker

Personal:

  • Direct employment: Nil (Retired research scientist)
  • Membership: Nil

Non-Personal:           

  • Grants: Research Funding in collaboration with industrial partners

Dr Gauri Godbole

Personal:           

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

Non-Personal:

  • Grants: Research funding from part public sector

Dr Rohini Manuel

Personal:

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

Non-personal:           

  • Grants:  Research funding from public and private sector       

Mrs Ann Williams

Personal:

  • Direct employment: Liverpool City Council        
  • Membership: Nil

Non-Personal:

  • Nil  

Mrs Emma Hill

PersonaI:

  • Direct employment: Soho House
  • Membership: Nil

Non-personal:

  • Working partnership UK Hospitality

Mr Alec Kyriakides

Personal:

  • Direct employment: Nil
  • Consultancy: Independent Food Safety Consultant; 
  • Shareholder:  J Sainsbury Plc
  • Non-Executive Board Member (unremunerated): Campden BRI
  • Non-Executive Board Member (unremunerated): Institute of Food Science and Technology
  • Honorary Lecturer (unremunerated): Queen’s University Belfast
  • Independent Governance Board Member and Chair of Technical Standards Committee
  • (remunerated): Safe to Trade Scheme
  • Membership: Institute of Food Science and Technology, International Association for Food Protection

Non-Personal:

  • Chairman Campden BRI

Professor Peter McClure

Personal:    

  • Direct employment: Nil (former Microbiology Department Manager for Europe, at Mondelēz International R&D Ltd)
  • Shareholder:  Unilever
  • Royalties for book chapters: Woodhead Publishing and Elsevier      
  • Membership: Nil

Non-personal:

  • Nil

Miss Heather Lawson

Personal:           

  • Direct employment: Royal Borough of Greenwich
  • Membership:  Chartered Institute of Environmental Health    

Non-personal:           

  • Nil

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