Register of Interest
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Skip the menu of subheadings on this page.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 schemesAIC (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