COT/COM/COC Annual Report 2024

2024 Membership of the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment

Last updated: 11 December 2025

 Chair

Professor Gareth Jenkins

Professor of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science, Swansea University.

Ex-Officio Chair of the Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COC).  

Members

Professor David Harrison MD DSc FRCPath FRCPEd FRCSEd

Professor of Pathology, University of St Andrews.

Dr Carol Beevers (to 31 December 2024)

Regulatory Toxicology, Corteva Agriscience.

Dr Ann Doherty (from 1 May 2024)

Head of Safety Innovation, Clinical Pharmacology and Safety Sciences, AstraZeneca.

Dr Paul Fowler

FSTox Consulting.

Dr George Johnson

Associate Professor, Swansea University Medical School.

Ms Julia Kenny

Nonclinical Safety Project Toxicologist, GSK.

Dr Andrew Povey

Reader in Molecular Epidemiology, University of Manchester.

Mr Paul Rawlinson

Gentronix Ltd.

Dr Robert Searle Foster (from 1 May 2024)

Lhasa Ltd.

Dr Robert Smith (from 1 May 2024)

Labcorp.

Mrs Madeleine Wang

Lay Member.

Mr Amit Bhagwat (to 31 August 2024)

Lay Member.

Dr Nathan Goldsmith

Associate Member, Exponent.

Secretariat

Dr Ovnair Sepai

UKHSA Scientific Secretary

Mr Stephen Robjohns

UKHSA Scientific Secretariat

Ms Cath Mulholland

FSA Scientific Secretary

Ms Claire Potter

FSA Scientific Secretariat

Mr Tom Fraser

Committee Administrator, UKHSA