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FCM JEGs Register of Interests

Last updated: 02 January 2025

Register of Interests FCM JEGs 

In line with FSA policy and established good practice for accessing external expertise, Scientific Advisory Committee members are required to declare any personal or non-personal interests which represent a real or potential conflict in respect of general or specific aspects of work undertaken. Interests will be managed in accordance with the FSA’s policy and guidance.

If members have interests not specified in these notes, but which they believe could be regarded as influencing their advice or other work for FSA, they should declare them. However, members are not under any obligation to search out interests of which they might reasonably not be aware. For example, either through being unaware of all the interests of family members, or of not being aware of links between one company and another.

Dr Michael Walker

Current Interests

Personal interests

 

Direct employment.

Michael Walker Consulting Ltd. Occasional consultancy and expert witness services in scientific areas unrelated to my public appointments

 

 

 

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

See above and other public appointments below

Shareholdings.

None

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

Honorary Fellow Institute of Food Science & Technology, IFST, Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC.

Other personal interests.

Honorary professor (pro bono), Institute for Global Food Security, IGFS, the Queen’s University, Belfast, QUB.

Non-personal interests

 

Fellowships.

None

Indirect support.

T&S (£300) to attend conference, ILSI-Europe, 2019, T&S (@~£500 - £650 per annum) to attend annual meetings, European Commission European Network of Food Allergen Detection Laboratories, 2018 – date.. T&S (~£250) to attend Mondelez meeting on food allergens, 2024.

Trusteeships.

None

Land and property.

 

 

None (other than domestic home)

Other public appointments.

·       Office of Product Safety and Standards Scientific Advisory Group Consumer Safety (SAG-CS)

·       Member, FSA/DH Committee on Toxicity (COT) Joint Expert Group, Additives, Enzymes and other regulated products, Smoke Flavourings subgroup.

·       Co-Chair ILSI-Europe Expert Group on methods needed to deploy allergen quantitative risk assessment

·       Member ILSI Europe Expert Group on Precautionary Allergen labelling

·       Chair BSI AW/34/46 Food Authenticity

Other non-personal interests.

None

Historic Interests

Personal interests

 

Direct employment.

See above

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

See above and Head: Office of the Government Chemist, LGC, 2018 – 2021

Referee Analyst, Laboratory of the Government Chemist 2006 to 2021

Shareholdings.

None

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

Former member Association of Public Analysts.

Other personal interests.

None

Non-personal interests

 

Fellowships.

None

Indirect support.

See above

Trusteeships.

None

Land and property.

None (other than domestic home)

Other public appointments.

Food Standards Agency, (FSA) Board member for Northern Ireland and Chair of the FSA’s Northern Ireland Advisory Committee, 2000 – 2004.

Other non-personal interests.

None

Dr Natalia Falagán *

 

Dr Sibylle Ermler

Current Interests

Personal interests

 

Direct employment.

Since 11/2022: Lecturer in Biosciences at Brunel University London

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

None

Shareholdings.

None

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

None

Other personal interests.

Publication of research articles on topics related to endocrine disruptors and chemical mixture risk assessment.

Non-personal interests

 

Fellowships.

None

Indirect support.

Grant funding from the EC from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 825489

Trusteeships.

None

Land and property.

 

 

None

Other public appointments.

Member of the UK Committee on Toxicity, Joint Expert Group on Food Contact Materials (since 2019)

Member of the UK-REACH Independent Scientific Expert Pool (RISEP, since 2021)

 

Other non-personal interests.

None

Historic Interests

Personal interests

 

Direct employment.

2011-22: Research Fellow in Human Toxicology, Brunel University London

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

2021-24: Five consultancy projects under a ‘Framework service contract for the provision of expert assistance to the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) activities supporting a zero-pollution ambition, including linkages between environment, health and chemicals”.

2021: Consultancy work for Alcarelle Ltd

 

Training provided to ECHA, 2020 (In vitro bioanalysis for assessing endocrine disrupting compounds) and EFSA, 2019 (Hands-on Training: Quantitative Human Cell & Effect Based In Vitro Bioanalysis for Assessing Endocrine Disrupting Compounds).

Shareholdings.

None

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

None

Other personal interests.

None

Non-personal interests

 

Fellowships.

None

Indirect support.

2019: Research Grants from the Royal Society and Breast Cancer UK.

Trusteeships.

None

Land and property.

None

Other public appointments.

 None

Other non-personal interests.

None

Dr Stuart Adams

Current Interests

Personal interests

 

Direct employment.

Waters Corporation has numerous collaborations with industry. These industrial partners may generate scientific data that is included in an application that I may be asked to assess. I may or may not have been directly involved in the collaboration work.

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

None

Shareholdings.

None

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

None

Other personal interests.

None

Non-personal interests

 

Fellowships.

None

Indirect support.

None

Trusteeships.

None

Land and property.

 

 

None

Other public appointments.

None

Other non-personal interests.

None

Historic Interests

Personal interests

 

Direct employment.

Waters Corporation (September 2018 till present) has numerous collaborations with industry. These industrial partners may generate scientific data that is included in an application that I maybe asked to assess. I may or may not have been directly involved in the collaboration work.

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

None

Shareholdings.

None

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

None

Other personal interests.

Previously employed by Fera Science Limited from September 2002 (then Central Science Laboratory) till September 2018. Not directly engaged in working on food contact material but working the department where the work was carried out. Applicants may include scientific data generated when I was an employee of this agency/company and that I would assess in my role on the FCMJEG.

Non-personal interests

 

Fellowships.

None

Indirect support.

None

Trusteeships.

None

Land and property.

None

Other public appointments.

None

Other non-personal interests.

None

Dr Gill Clare

Current Interests

Personal interests

 

Direct employment.

None

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

Labcorp, cytogenetic consultant (analyst)

Formerly Covance Labs

Shareholdings.

AstraZeneca, Diageo, Marks and Spencers

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

Member of British Toxicology Society (BTS), United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen Society (UKEMS)

Other personal interests.

Shell Research Limited (pension)

AstraZeneca UK (pension)

Aviva (pension)

Non-personal interests

 

Fellowships.

None

Indirect support.

None

Trusteeships.

None

Land and property.

 

 

None

Other public appointments.

HSE; UK REACH Independent Scientific Expert (RISEP), FSA; Food Contact Materials Joint Expert Group (FCMJEG), FSA; Smoke Flavourings Working Group of Joint Expert Group on Additives, Enzymes and other Regulated Products (AEJEG), OPSS; Scientific Advisory Group on Chemical Safety of non-food and non-medicinal products,

Other non-personal interests.

NIHR; Academy selection committee member for Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement, University of Surrey; guest lecturer (food safety). DHSC; occasionally act as Independent Panel member for SACs (not in area of involvement, past or present)

Historic Interests

Personal interests

 

Direct employment.

Covance Ltd (more than 15y ago)

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

Covance Ltd cytogenetic consultant (analyst)

Shareholdings.

AstraZeneca, Diageo, Marks and Spencers.

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

None

Other personal interests.

None

Non-personal interests

 

Fellowships.

None

Indirect support.

None

Trusteeships.

None

Land and property.

None

Other public appointments.

UKHSA; Committee on Carcinogenicity of chemicals in food, consumer products and the environment (COC) until spring 2024

Other non-personal interests.

None

 Dr Jenny Odum

Current Interests

Personal interests

 

Direct employment.

Pension (Syngenta UK)

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

Independent consultancy work

Shareholdings.

None

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

British Toxicology Society

Other personal interests.

None

Non-personal interests

 

Fellowships.

None

Indirect support.

None

Trusteeships.

None

Land and property.

None

Other public appointments.

None

Other non-personal interests.

None

Historic Interests

Personal interests

 

Direct employment.

Salary (Syngenta UK)

Consultancies and other fee-paid work.

Independent consultancy work

Shareholdings.

None

Clubs, other organisations and advocacy groups.

British Toxicology Society

Other personal interests.

None

Non-personal interests

 

Fellowships.

None

Indirect support.

None

Trusteeships.

None

Land and property.

None

Other public appointments.

None

Other non-personal interests.

None