Members and Terms of Reference

Food Standards Agency representatives
Sarah Appleby (Chair), Food Safety Implementation & Delivery Division
Colin Houston, Food Safety Implementation & Delivery Division
Shaheen Zar, Food Safety Implementation & Delivery Division
Richard Withers, Meat Hygiene Service
Gerry McCurdy, Food Standards Agency (Northern Ireland)
Jim Thomson, Food Standards Agency (Scotland)
Jane Davies, Food Standards Agency (Wales)
Rob Wilkins, Food Standards Agency (Wales)

Enforcement representatives
Kirsty Dawes, Association of Port Health Authorities (APHA)
Gwyneth Rogers, Local Authority Coordinators of Regulatory Services (LACORS)
John McKee, Northern Ireland Local Government Association (NILGA)
Kevin McNunn, Society of Chief Environmental Health Officers in Scotland (SOCEHOS)
Philip Davies, Welsh Local Government Association

Professional representatives
Stuart Musgrove, Institute of Food Science and Technology (UK) (IFST)
Andrew Jamieson, Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland (REHIS)
Jenny Morris, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
David Pickering, Trading Standards Institute (TSI)
Duncan Campbell, Association on Public Analysts (APA)

Consumer representatives
Sue Davies, Which?
Jeanette Longfield, Sustain
Susan Knox, Foodaware

Industry representatives
John Dyson, British Hospitality Association (Safeguard)
Phil Dalton, British Retail Consortium (BRC)
Sally Barber, BRC
Helen McDermott, Food and Drink Federation (FDF)

Other Government departments
Jim McLauchlin, Health Protection Agency (HPA)
Richard Wilson, Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Gerry Kasprzok, HSE

Secretariat
Enforcement Support Division
Rachel Patrick
tel: 020 7276 8455
email: rachel.patrick@foodsatndards.gsi.gov.uk
Chris Harvey
tel: 020 7276 8454
email: chris.harvey@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk

To work collectively in the context of the Food Standards Agency’s objectives to improve public health and protect consumers’ interests through improved food safety and standards and measurably improve public confidence in national food safety and standards arrangements. In particular to:

• >contribute to the development and maintenance of a framework that delivers proportionate and effective risk-based regulation and enforcement
• contribute to the development and maintenance of effective mechanisms for food business operators/enforcement bodies to deliver food law compliance
• the provision of expert advice, exchange of views and consideration of evidence in order to help inform, develop and deliver the Agency’s regulation and enforcement policy
• to consider any other issues relevant to food law regulation and enforcement