Members of the Advisory Body for the Delivery of Official Controls

Name	Organisation	Representing
Professor Patrick Wall (Chair)	College of Life Science, University College of Dublin
Alan Craig	Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers	Red Meat Sector
Norman Bagley	Association of Independent Meat Suppliers	Red Meat Sector
Stuart Roberts	British Meat Processors Association	Red Meat Sector
Graham Brand	The Anglian Poultry Processors Action Group (TAPPAG)	White Meat Sector
Peter Bradnock	British Poultry Council	White Meat Sector
Stephen Crouch	Hampshire Game Ltd	Game Sector
Sue Davies	Which?	Consumers
William Lloyd-Williams	National Federation of Meat and Food Traders	Meat Retailers
Anthony Scott	British Retail Consortium (Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd)	BRC/Supermarkets
Nigel Miller	National Farmers' Union of Scotland	Primary Producers
Sandy Duncan	Hall Mark Meat Hygiene Ltd	MHS Contractors
Steve McGrath	Meat Hygiene Service
Brian Harding	Defra
Jim Norrie	Welsh Assembly Government
Martin Morgan	The Scottish Government
Robert Huey	DARDNI

Professor Patrick Wall (Chair) – University of Dublin
In September 2006, Prof. Patrick Wall was elected chairperson of the management board in the European Food Safety Authority. He is both a veterinary surgeon and a medical doctor. He is Associate Professor of Public Health in the UCD School of Public Health and Population Science. His research interests include food borne disease, lifestyle related diseases and health damaging consumer behaviour. He was previously adjunct professor of Food Safety in the UCD Centre For Food Safety and before that he was the first Chief Executive of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. Prior to that he was a consultant in the NHS based in the Public Health Laboratory Service’s Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre in charge of the surveillance, and investigation of outbreaks, of gastrointestinal diseases. He has an MSc in Infectious diseases from the University of London and an MBA from UCD’s Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. He is a Member of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine in Ireland and a Fellow of the Faculty in the UK.

Alan Craig – Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers
Alan is General Manager of Anglo Beef Processors (Scotland) . ABP/ AIBP part of the IFP group, currently processing 1 million cattle annually across British Isles. He is also Senior Vice President of SAMW, the association represents 92% of red meat processing capacity in Scotland and Vice Chairman of Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) technical spent Committee. He was previously a member of the MLC Sheep Strategy Council 1997-2002.

Anthony Scott – British Retail Consortium (Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited)
Anthony is the Category Product Manager for Red Meat at Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited representing multiple retailers and the British Retail Consortium. At Sainsbury’s he has managed a number of areas, including Meat, Meat preparations and Ready to eat meat. Prior to Sainsbury’s, he worked in the food manufacturing industry, having studied at and graduated from Seayle-Hayne.

Brian Harding – Defra
Brian was appointed Director, Food and Farming Group in Defra in April 2006. Previously Director of Wildlife, Countryside and Land Use from April 2003 to April 2006 and, before that, Director of Defra’s Policy and Corporate Strategy Unit and Secretary to the Defra Management Board. Spent the whole of his career in MAFF/DEFRA, apart from a six-year spell in the 1980s when he was seconded to the Cabinet Office European Affairs Secretariat and the British Embassy in Washington DC.

Graham Brand – The Anglian Poultry Processors Action Group (TAPPAG)
For the last 40+ years, Graham worked in, and subsequently became the owner of Jack Brand Limited, a private poultry processing factory originally established by my Grandmother 99 years ago. He is currently a Non Executive Director and Share Holder in the Company. He is also the Treasurer of The Anglian Poultry Processors Action Group (TAPPAG), which was formed in 1998 to represent the interests of small and medium sized processors.

Jim Norrie – Welsh Assembly Government
Jim studied architecture at Dundee University. Worked in other Government Departments but joined the Welsh Assembly Government in 2001 and was immediately thrown into the deep end of FMD (and again on the recent FMD and Bluetongue outbreaks!) Have covered most of the “farming portfolios” but is now concentrating on Responsibility and Cost Sharing. In addition, there are a number of welfare matters demanding attention at the moment such as, circus animals, tail docking, Codes of Practice for companion animals.

Martin Morgan – Head Of TSE & Animal By-Products Policy Branch - The Scottish Government
Martin has worked as a policy officer for the Scottish Government and its predecessors for just over 30 years. He has extensive experience and background in policy formulation at UK and EU levels and a strong background in the legislative and regulatory making process. He is in regular contact with the MHS at both local and national level, and also regularly engaged with primary producers, meat processors, and their representative bodies providing him with a broad overview of the strengths and weaknesses of the current structures of MHS.

Nigel Miller – Vice President – National Farmers’ Union of Scotland
Nigel is a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons; Livestock farmer. He is past chairman NFUS Livestock committee and now Vice President of NFUS responsible for livestock issues.

Norman Bagley – Association of Independent Meat Suppliers
Norman researched and set up aims after serving on the Maclean Task Force in 2000/2001. Been Policy Director since inception and AIMS has grown to over 200 members in medium and small abattoir cutting plant and catering butcher sector.

Peter Bradnock – British Poultry Council
Peter Bradnock joined the British Poultry Council in 1991 and has been its Chief Executive since 1993. He is one of two BPC members on the Board of AVEC, the EU poultry meat representative body. His earlier career was in international trade policy, including postings to Brussels and Rome, working on access conditions for agricultural products into the European Union. He has a degree in Economics and Political Science from Victoria University, Wellington.

Robert Huey – DARDNI
Robert is responsible for the implementation of Meat Hygiene controls in approved establishments in Northern Ireland. Qualified as a veterinarian from Dublin, 1983, spent 5 years in general practice. Obtained Royal College Diploma in Veterinary Public Health (Meat Hygiene) in 1996. Involved in veterinary politics and have held the office of President in the North of Ireland Veterinary Association, the Veterinary Public Health Association and the Union of Veterinary Hygienists, the public health section of the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe. Co-author of Meat Hygiene, 10th edition.

Sandy Duncan – Veterinary Director – Hall Mark Meat Hygiene Ltd
Sandy is currently Veterinary Director at Hall Mark Meat Hygiene and a farmer producing organically reared beef and lamb in Angus. He is a member of VPHA Council. Previously he spent 12 years as a partner in mixed practice, specialising in farm animal health planning and public health work. He was designated an OV in 1990.

Stephen Crouch – Hampshire Game Ltd
Stephen (age 42), attended Harper Adams College of Agriculture. He is Director of Hampshire Game Limited and Co-chairman of the National Game Dealers Association.

Steve McGrath – Meat Hygiene Service
Steve McGrath took up post as MHS Chief Executive on 22 January 2007. He has extensive leadership experience as a Board Director of a number of large organisations in the private and public sectors, focussed on delivering the highest level of customer service on a commercial footing. This includes the management of large teams in high volume operations across the UK. He is currently Director of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), responsible for 70 million National Insurance accounts, together with managing shared services for 16,000 staff in HMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Stuart Roberts – British Meat Processors Association
Stuart is Director of the British Meat Processors Association representing both slaughterhouses and further processors and manufacturers of meat, and meat products throughout Great Britain. Prior to joining the BMPA in Summer of 2007, Stuart held a number of position within Defra, the Food Standards Agency and MAFF including, throughout 2005 / 06, leading the Defra project to reintroduce over thirty month cattle into the food chain. He is also an agriculture graduate and partner in a family run farming business in Hertfordshire.

Sue Davies – Which?
Sue Davies is the Chief Policy Adviser at Which?, the independent consumer organisation. She has represented consumers on a range of government committees and working groups, including the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF), Food Incidents Task Force and Sudan I Review Group. She is also Chair of the European Food Safety Authority’s Stakeholder Consultative Platform. She was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to food safety.

William Lloyd-Williams – President - National Federation of Meat and Food Traders
William is the third generation family butcher/abattoir business in rural mid-Wales. He joined the Federation of Executive Council in 2003, elected President in 2007/08 with food issues at the helm of British consumers interests, e.g. “food miles”, “local food initiatives”, “reading the carbon footprint”. He believes the importance of abattoirs in rural locations being able to service local agriculture and this reduce animal transport across the length and breadth of UK.