BSE controls review: key people
Here are the key people and organisations involved in the BSE controls review.
The review is being led by FSA Chairman, Sir John Krebs. Since 1988 he has held a Royal Society Research Professorship in the Department of Zoology, Oxford University, where he is also a Fellow of Pembroke College. He has also held posts at the University of British Columbia and the University of Wales, Bangor. Sir John is an internationally renowned scientist for his research on the behaviour and ecology of animals.
Between 1994 and 1999, Sir John was Chief Executive of the Natural Environment Research Council.
Sir John is a Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of Academia Europea and of the Max Planck Society, an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society. He has received numerous awards and honorary degrees for his scientific work.
The Review Chairman
The FSA Review Group
Geoffrey Podger, FSA Chief Executive
David Taylor, Head of Veterinary Public Health Unit, FSA
Chris Lawson, Head of Meat Hygiene Division, FSA
Mike Dawson, FSA Technical Adviser to SEAC
Barbara Richards, FSA Meat Hygiene Division and review secretary
Spongiform Encephalopthy Advisory Committee (SEAC)
The members of SEAC are:
Acting Chairman: Professor Peter Smith, Epidemiologist, Head of Department of Infectious and Tropical Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Members:
Professor Adriano Aguzzi – Acting head of the Institute of Neuropathology at the University of Zurich
Professor Roy Anderson FRS – Imperial College, London
Professor Christopher Bostock – Director of the Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council´s Institute for Animal Health
Mr Ray Bradley CBE – Veterinary Pathologist, BSE co-ordinator for MAFF until his retirement in 1995
Professor John Collinge – Professor of Molecular Neurogenetics, Neurogenetics Unit, incorporating the Prion Disease Group, at Imperial College School of Medicine; Honorary Consultant Neurologist at St Mary´s Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
Dr James Ironside – Neuropathologist at the CJD Surveillance Unit, Edinburgh
Mr Peter Jinman – Private Veterinary Surgeon
Professor Harriet Kimbell – Principal Lecturer at the Guildford College of Law and Deputy Chairman of the Consumers´ Association. Professor Kimbell was a member of the Polkingthorne Committee on the Ethics of Genetic Modification and Food Use and the Banner Committee on the Ethics of Novel Breeding Techniques and Farm Animals
Professor Ian McConnell – Professor of Veterinary Science at the University of Cambridge and Director of Research at the University of Cambridge Veterinary School
Professor Colin Masters – Head of the Department of Pathology at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr Jiri Safar – Ajunct Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco
External advisers
The review is also obtaining expert advice from a number of external advisers. They are:
Dr Angela McLean, Head of Mathematical Biology, Institute for Animal Health
Professor Jeanne Bell, Department of Neuropathology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
Professor Bruce Traill, Head of Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, University of Reading
Professor Albert Osterhaus, Department of Virology, Eramus University, Rotterdam. Member of the EU Scientific Steering Committee.
Dr Gerard Pascal, INRA
The Stakeholder Group
The Stakeholder Group
A specially convened group of stakeholders has been set up by the FSA and they will be consulted on the BSE controls review draft report. They are representatives of consumer, farming, meat industry, scientific and medical organisations as well as Government departments.
The members of the Stakeholder Group are:
Professor Peter Lachmann FRS
The Academy of Medical Sciences
Mr Andrew Chitty
British Meat Federation
Mr Adam Muggoch
British Meat Manufacturers Association
Dr Henry Fell
British Medical Association
Mr Chris Gilbert-Wood
British Retail Consortium
Ms Susan Baker
Consumers Association
Dr John Godfrey
Consumers in Europe Group
Mr Robert Voyle
Farmers Union of Wales
Mr Bob Bansback
Meat and Livestock Commission
Mr Robin Simpson
National Consumer Council
Mr Neil Cutler
National Farmers Union
Mr Jim Walker
National Farmers Union of Scotland
Mr Bob Tyler
National Federation of Meat and Food Traders
Mrs Jill Nute
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Professor Peter Biggs
The Royal Society
Mr John Chadwick
Small Abattoirs Federation
Mr John Andrew Rankin OBE
Ulster Farmers Union
Mr Alan Lawrence
UK Renderers Association
Mr Stewart Johnston
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Northern Ireland
Mr Alan Harvey
Department of Health
Dr Liz Mitchell
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland
Mr Peter Nash
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Mr Gwyn Jones
National Assembly for Wales -Agriculture Department
Mr Richard W Hughes
National Assembly for Wales – NHS Directorate
Mrs Pat Sellers
Office of Science and Technology
Dr Martin Donaghy
Scottish Executive Health Department
Mr David Dickson
Scottish Executive Rural Affairs Department
The following FSA Board members and staff are also part of the Stakeholder Group:
Sir John Krebs, FSA Chairman
Suzi Leather, FSA Deputy Chair
Geoffrey Podger, Chief Executive
David Taylor, Head of Veterinary Public Health Unit, FSA
Chris Lawson, Head of Meat Hygiene Division, FSA
Mike Dawson, FSA Technical Adviser to SEAC
Barbara Richards, FSA Meat Hygiene Division and review secretary
Jane Gibson, FSA Meat Hygiene Division, Special Projects Unit