Declaration of COT members’ interests during the period of this report -2023

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 (until 2021) Boards of Trustees; ILSI Europe, Board of Directors.

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

WHO/FAO JECFA (vet) and WHO/FAO JMPR.

WHO TobReg.

WG10 TC126 (Intense Machine- smoking Regime for Testing Cigarettes) (until 2022).

EUROTOX.

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

Michigan State University MSU Center for Research on Ingredient Safety (CRIS) (External Advisory Committee); Personal Care Products Council (PCPC) Sunscreen Consortium, Washington, D.C - Cancer risk assessment of sunscreen products;

Advisory Board, brigid: Bridging the Gap between Microplastics and Human Health, Plastics Europe;

Danone SA expert mtg to discuss emerging issues in food safety.

Agency for Innovations in Food and Chemical Safety Programme. Science, Technology and Research, Singapore (A*STAR) (Scientific Advisory Board) (until 2022).

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Syngenta - Principal Science Advisor    (part time).

Personal   Interest

Shareholder:

 AstraZeneca,

Regulatory Science Associates (Part, Time Consultant).

Personal   Interest

Consultancy:

Regulatory Science Associates (part time).

Personal   Interest

Membership:

British Toxicology Society (Vice President)

Society of Toxicology (USA),

European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals Scientific Committee,

Crop Life International Human Health Group.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Trowers & Hamlins LLP,

Company Secretary of Muse Interiors.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Personal   Interest

Shareholder:

Standard Life Santander.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

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.

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.

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.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Dean of Applied Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

British Toxicology Society,

Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology,

Member of Governing Council of Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS), Member of the Scottish Government Chemicals Policy Network,

 Member of Office for Product Safety & Standards.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

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.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Reading.

Personal   Interest

Membership:
Nutrition Society,

Registered Nutritionist,

British Mass Spectrometry Society,

Scientific Committee of the British Nutrition Foundation.

Non-Personal Interest

Research Funding BBSRC.

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.

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.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Director of Regulatory Science Ltd.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

None.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor University of Leicester.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

Member of working group, European Food Safety Authority, 2018-2019.

Vice-President of UKEMS (UK Environmental Muta-Genesis Society).

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Independent consultant in experimental and toxicological pathology.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest 

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Mondelēz International.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest 

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Marit Mohn Chair in Perinatal &

Paediatric Environmental Epidemiology, Imperial College London.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest 

None.

Personal   Interest

Consultancies and other fee-paid work:

Consultancy for L’Oreal, Paris.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest 

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Nottingham Trent University,

Rare Breeds Survival Trust.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

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.

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.

Personal   Interest

Employee: Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen

Personal   Interest

Membership:
The Nutrition Society (UK),

The British Toxicology Society,

FSA Register of Specialists.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee: Chair of Immunology & Infection, and Head of the Centre for Biomedicine & Global Health within the School of Applied Sciences at Edinburgh Napier University.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

Member of the British Society for Immunology.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Reader in Computational Toxicology, Liverpool John Moores University. 

Consultancies and other fee-paid work:

Crop Life Europe funded work into how grouping and read-across can be used to fill to predict the toxicity of metabolites and residues of plant protection products. All work is in the open scientific literature.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

University of Lincoln.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Edinburgh Napier University

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest 

Fellowships:

Previously a Churchill Trust Fellow.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

None.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

EAACI Junior Member,

EFA Youth Parliament Member.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

University of Oxford,

Salaried GP, National Health Service (NHS).

Personal   Interest

Membership:

None.

Non-Personal Interest

Other non-personal interests:

Research funding from NIHR, MRC, Wellcome Trust.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

University of Reading.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

Academic member of Nutrition Society and co-chair of associated Special Interest Group on Phytochemicals and Health.

Academic member and committee member (new investigator sub-committee) of International Society of Hypertension.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

The University of Aberdeen.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

British Toxicology Society,

British Pharmacology Society,

American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics,

Egyptian Pharmacists Syndicate.

Personal   Interest

Other:

Visiting lectureship positions at Newcastle University and Cairo University.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Exponent International Ltd.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry,

Expert Committee on Pesticides.

Fellowship:

Royal Society of Chemistry.

Personal   Interest

Shareholder:

Exponent Inc.

Non-Personal Interest

None.

Personal   Interest

Employee:

Head of Lifelong Health at the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Aberdeen.

Personal   Interest

Membership:

Chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Strategy Advisory Panel on Bioscience for an Integrated Understanding of Health. Dates: 2017 to 2022.

Non-Personal Interest

Research project funding:

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Dates: 2019 to 2024.