COT/COM/COC Annual Report 2021

Declaration of COT members interests during the period of this report 2021

Last updated: 17 November 2022

Professo r Alan Boobis OBE, PhD,  FBTS, FBPhS

Personal Interest

Employee:

Imperial College London, Department of Medicine (retired June 2017, part-time appointment from Aug 2017-May 2019).

Full retiral June 2019. Emeritus  Professor of Imperial College London, National Heart & Lung Institute.

Personal Interest

 

Membership:

ILSI & ILSI,HESI Board of Trustees  ILSI Europe.

Board of Directors Science Advisory Board of Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology.

Dept. of Health Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants WHO/FAO JMPR.

WHO/FAO JECFA (vet).

WHO TobReg.

WG10 TC126 (Intense Machine- smoking Regime for Testing Cigarettes).

EUROTOX.

British Pharmacological Society,  British Toxicology Society,  Society of Toxicology (USA).

Royal Society of Biology (until 2017).

Michigan State University MSU Center for Research on Ingredient Safety (CRIS) (External Advisory Committee).

 Agency for Innovations in Food and Chemical Safety Programme. Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (A*STAR) (Scientific Advisory Board).

Non Personal Interest

None.

Dr Phil Botham

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Syngenta - Principal Science Advisor    (part time).

Personal   Interest

Shareholder:

 AstraZeneca,

Regulatory Science Associates (Part, Time Consultant).

Personal   Interest

Membership:

British Toxicology Society,

Society of Toxicology (USA),

European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals Scientific Committee,

European Crop Protection Association Toxicology Expert Group,

Crop Life International Human Health Steering Team.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Ms Jane Case

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Company Secretary of Muse Interiors  Stevens & Bolton LLP (as Jane Hughes).

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Personal   Interest

Shareholder:

Standard Life Santander

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Dr Stella Cochrane

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Unilever.

Personal   Interest

Membership / Affiliation:

Unilever representative on the UK FDF Allergen Steering Group (Deputy Chair),

FDE Allergen Group and University of Nebraska Food Allergy Research & Resources Board.

Personal   Interest

Shareholder:

Unilever.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Dr James Coulson

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Cardiff University,

Director of Medical, Scientific and Toxicology Consultancy Ltd.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

British Medical Association,

British  Pharmacology Society,

British Toxicology Society National Trust,

Royal College of Physicians of London.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Dr René Crevel

Personal   Interest

Consultant:

Réne Crevel consulting.

Personal   Interest

Membership/affiliation:

ILSI Food Allergy Task Force: Chair.

Personal   Interest

Shareholder :

Unilever,

Centrica,

BG Group,

National Grid,

 Lloyds.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Professor Thorhallur Ingi Halldorsson COT Member from June 2021.

Personal  Interest

Employee:

Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Iceland.

Personal  Interest

Membership:

European Food Safety Authority -  Scientific committee and various working groups.

Nordic Council of Ministers - revision of the 2022 Nordic Nutrition Recommendation).

Icelandic Risk Assessment Committee for Food, Feed, Fertilizers and Seeds (IRAC) – occasional expert work.

The Nutricia Research Foundation – review of applications  once a year.

The Icelandic Research Found (RANNIS) – occasional member of different expert panels.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Dr Caroline Harris

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Exponent International Ltd.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.

Personal   Interest

Shareholder:

Exponent Inc.

Personal   Interest

Fellowships:

Royal Society of Chemistry.

Non-Personal Interest

Membership:

Expert Committee on Pesticides.

Professor Gary Hutchison

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Dean of Applied Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee DEFRA,

British Toxicology Society.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Dr Sarah Judge

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Newcastle University,

Lowcock Properties Ltd.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

British Pharmacology Society,

 British Toxicology Society International Association for Neurotoxicology.

Non-Personal Interest

Research Funding.

Professor Gunter Kuhnle

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Reading.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Dr David Lovell

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Reader in Medical Statistics,  

St Georges Medical School University of London.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

HESI GTTC –

Biometrics Society,

British Toxicology Society Genetics Society,

Royal Society of Biology Laboratory Animal Science Association,

Royal Statistical Society Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical  Industry,

United Kingdom Environment Mutagen Society (UKEMS),

UK National Centre of Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs),

MRC EMINENT Scientific Review Board.

 

Also, private member of:

British Trust of Ornithologists (BTO)

English Heritage,

Liberty,

Campaign of the Protection of Rural England (CPRE),

Kew Gardens,

Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust (SBBOT),

Chelsea Physic Garden,

 National Trust.

Personal   Interest

Shareholder:

National Grid,

Pfizer,

AstraZeneca (spouse shareholder),

 National Grid plc (spouse shareholder).

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Professor Shirley Price COT Member since June 2021.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

None.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest

Trusteeships:

Gas Safety Trust

Non-Personal Interest

Other:

I can confirm that as the President of the British Toxicology Society (BTS) I hold a non-personal and non-specific interest in both GSK and AstraZeneca on the Society’s behalf. These non-personal and non-specific interests relate to donations provided by both companies to the British Toxicology Society (BTS) to support their Annual Congress and Education and Training.

Dr Mac Provan

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Director of Regulatory Science Ltd.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Ms Juliet Rix

Personal   Interest

Employee:

None.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Dr Cheryl Scudamore

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Independent consultant in experimental and toxicological pathology.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest 

None.

Dr Natalie Thatcher

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Mondelēz International.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest 

None.

Professor Mireille Toledano

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Marit Mohn Chair in Perinatal &

Paediatric Environmental Epidemiology, Imperial College London.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest 

None.

Dr Simon Wilkinson COT Member since June 2021.

Personal   Interest

Consultancies and other fee-paid work:

Consultancy for L’Oreal, Paris.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest 

None.

Professor Philippe Wilson

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Nottingham Trent University,

Rare Breeds Survival Trust.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Professor Matthew Wright

Personal   Interest

Consultancies and Direct Employment:

Newcastle University.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

British Toxicology Society,

Society  of Toxicology (US),

EFSA FAF Panel.

Personal   Interest

Miscellaneous:

Toxicology Associate Editor.

Non-Personal Interest

Support by Industry:

GSK,

Lubrizol.

Professor Maged Younes

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Independent expert in toxicology and biochemical pharmacology.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

Chair of EFSA ANS panel,

 Chair Commission on evidence-based methods in risk assessment, Federal Institute for Risk Assessment  (BFr), Germany.

Society of Toxicology,

USA German Society of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Society for Risk Analysis.

Non-Personal Interest

None.