Food Additives and Contaminants Committee

HC Deb 22 March 1983 vol 39 cc388-9W

Mr. Deakins

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the members of the Food Additives and Contaminants Committee; how often the committee meets; and what are its terms of reference.

Mrs. Fenner

The members of the Food Additives and Contaminants Committee are:

Chairman

• Dr. B. C. L. Weedon, CBE, FRS—Vice-Chancellor, University of Nottingham.

Members

• Dr. P. J. Brignell, BSc, PhD, CChem, MRSC—Manager-Purchasing, Research and Statistics, Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.
• J. W. Colquhoun, BSc, FIFST, FBIM—Director of Group Policy on Products Research and Development, Rowntree Mackintosh Ltd.
• Dr. W. Elstow, BSc, PhD, MChemA, CChem, FRSC, FIFST—Director and Joint General Manager of Weston Research Laboratories Ltd.
• Dr. T. T. Gorsuch, BSc, PhD, FIFST—Director of Research, Reckitt and Colman Ltd.
• A. J. Harrison, MChemA, CChem, FRSC, FIFST, FRSH—Chief Scientific Adviser, Public Analyst and Official Agricultural Analyst, Avon and Gloucestershire County Councils.
• Professor June K. Lloyd, MB, MD, ChB, FRCP, DPH—Professor of Child Health, St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London.
• Professor I. Macdonald, MD, DSc, FIBiol—Professor of Applied Physiology, Guy's Hospital, Medical School.
• Dr. D. S. McLaren, MB, ChB, MD, DTM&H, PhD, FRCP (Edin.)—Reader, Department of Medicine, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.
• Professor J. W. G. Porter, MA, PhD, FIBiol—Director of National Institute for Research in Dairying, University of Reading.
• G. M. Telling, MSc, MChemA, CChem, FRSC—Head of Trace Analysis Group, Unilever Ltd.
• Professor P. Turner, MD, BSc, FRCP, HonMPS, HonFIBiol.—Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Chairman of the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment.
• Dr. Lesley Yeomans, BSc, PhD—Research manager, Public Affairs Consumers' Association.

The committee usually meets six to nine times a year.

Its terms of reference are: To advise the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Social Services, the Secretary of State for Wales, the Secretary of State for Scotland and, as respects Northern Ireland, the Head of the Department of Health and Social Services, on matters referred to them by Ministers in relation to food contaminants, additives and similar substances which are, or may be, present in food or used in its preparation, with particular reference to the exercise of powers conferred on Ministers by sections 4, 5 and 7 of the Food and Drugs Act 1955 and the corresponding provisions in enactments relating to Scotland and Northern Ireland.