Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes

HC Deb 06 June 1990 vol 173 cc660-1W

Sir Richard Body

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will publish in theOfficial Report the names of the members of his Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes; and whether he has required any of them to give an undertaking about secrecy in respect of the Committee's work.

Mr. Maclean

A listing of the current membership of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes is set out in the table. Members are requested to observe the confidential nature of the commercial information put before them. However, they are not asked to give a specific undertaking on secrecy.

Membership of the advisory committee on novel foods and processes

Chairman

Professor Derek C. Burke, BSc, PhD, HonLLD. Vice-Chancellor, University of East Anglia.

Members

Professor G. E. Adams, BSc, PhD, DSc. Director of Medical Research Council Radiobiology Unit, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire.

Professor T. Atkinson, BSc, PhD. Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Microbiology and Research, Microbial Technology Laboratory, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Dr. A. C. Baird-Parker, OBE, BSc, PhD. Head of the Microbiology Division, Unilever Research.

Professor W. P. T. James, MA, MD, DSc, FRCP, FRCP (Edin), FRSE. Director of the Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen.

Professor B. E. Moseley, BSc, PhD. Head of Reading Laboratory, Agricultural and Food Research Council, Institute of Food Research, Reading, Berkshire.

Professor D. J. Naismith, BSc, PhD. Head of the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, King's College, University of London.

Professor P. Richmond, BSc, PhD, DSc, CPhys FInstP. Head of Norwich Laboratory, Agricultural and Food Research Council, Institute of Food Research, Norwich.

Dr. P. J. Rodgers, MA, DPhil. Research and Regulatory Affairs Manager at ICI Biological Products.

Professor J. E. Smith, DSc, FIBiol, FRSE. Head of the Applied Microbiology Division, Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, University of Strathclyde.

Dr. J. W. G. Smith, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, FFCM, FIBiol, DipBact. Director of the Public Health Laboratory Service, London.

Professor D. A. T. Southgate, BSc, PhD. Head of the Nutrition Division of Norwich Laboratory, Agricultural and Food Research Council, Institute of Food Research, Norwich.

Dr. A. J. Swallow, PhD, DSc, ScD, CChem, FRSC. Head of the Biophysical Chemistry Department, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Manchester.

Professor P. Turner, MD, BSc, FRCP. Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, University of London.

Professor R. Walker, BSc, PhD. Professor of Food Science, University of Surrey.