HC Deb 18 May 1982 vol 24 cc82-3W
Mr. McCrindle

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will make a statement about the future of the Advisory Committee on the Irradiation of Food.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

The former Advisory Committee on the Irradiation of Food has recently been reconstituted with a wider remit. Under the new title of Advisory Committee on Irradiated and Novel Foods, its task is to give advice on these topics to Health and Agriculture Ministers of Great Britain and to the head of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland.

The membership of the advisory committee is as follows:

Chairman

  • Sir Arnold Burgen MD, FRCP, FRS, Director, National Institute of Medical Research.

Members

  • Professor J. W. Bridges BSc, PhD, Director, Robens Institute of Industrial & Environmental Health & Safety, University of Surrey.
  • Professor J. D. Bu'Lock BA, PhD, Head of Microbial Chemistry Laboratories, University of Manchester.
  • Dr. J. C. Gould BSc, MD, FRCPE, FRCPath, FRSE, Director, Central Microbiological Laboratories, Edinburgh.
  • Professor J. Hawthorn BSc, PhD, ARCST, CChem, FRSC, FIBiol, FIFST, FRSE, Professor of Food Science, University of Strathclyde.
  • Dr. W. P. T. James MA, MD, FRCP, Assistant Director, MRC, Dunn Nutritional Laboratory, Cambridge.
  • Dr. B. E. B. Moseley BSc, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, University of Edinburgh.
  • Dr. H. Smith PhD, FIBiol, Head of Biology Department, National Radiological Protection Board.
  • Dr. A. N. B. Stott MB, ChB, FFOM, Chief Medical Officer, UK Atomic Energy Authority.
  • Dr. A. J. Swallow PhD, DSc, ScD, FRSC, Head of Biophysical Chemistry Division, Paterson Laboratories, Christie Hospital & Holt Radium Institute, Manchester.
  • Professor A. E. Bender BSc, PhD, FRSH, FIFST, Professor of Nutrition & Dietetics, Queen Elizabeth College, University of London.
  • Professor P. Turner MD, BSc, FRCP, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London.
  • Dr. J. E. M. Whitehead MA, MB, FRCPath, DipBact, Director, Public Health Laboratory Service, London.