HC Deb 16 May 1996 vol 277 cc534-6W
Mr. Martyn Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list the present members of(a) the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food Policy, (b) the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food and (c) the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Foods, together with their current employers; [29285]

(2) which present members of (a) the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Food Policy, (b) the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food and (c) the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, are in receipt of grants from private companies. [29286]

Mr. Horam

Current membership of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy is as follows:

  • Chairman
  • Sir K. Calman: Chief Medical Officer
  • Members
  • Professor P. Aggett: Head of Department of Nutrition, Diet and Health, Biotechnology and Biological Research Council Institute of Food Research, Norwich
  • Professor K. Alberti1: Professor of Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Dr S. Bingham: Senior Scientist, Medical Research Council Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, Cambridge
  • Dr. H. Campbell1: Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Security Northern Ireland
  • Professor F. Cockburn: Samson Gemmell Professor of Child Health, University of Glasgow
  • Dr. H. Denner (until July 1995)1: Chief Scientist (Food), Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
  • Mr. B. Dickinson (From August 1995)1: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
  • Professor J. Grimley Evans: Division of Geriatric Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford
  • Ms A. Foster: Director, Scottish Consumer Council
  • Dr. G. Fowler: Clinical Reader in General Practice, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Oxford
  • Dr. D. Hine1: Chief Medical Office, Scottish Office
  • Professor A. A. Jackson: Professor of Human Nutrition, University of Southampton
  • Professor W. P. T. James: Director, Rowett Research Institute, Aberdeen
  • Dr. M. Kemp': Medical Research Council
  • Dr. R. Kendell': Chief Medical Officer, Welsh Office
  • Professor M. Marmot: Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Medical School, London
  • Dr. D. Richardson: Nestle UK Limited
  • Ms L. Stockley1: Health Education Authority 1 Ex officio.

Current membership of the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Enviornment is as follows:

  • Members
  • Professor J. M. Parry (Chair): University College of Swansea
  • Professor J. Ashby: Zeneca
  • Professor R. L. Carter: The Royal Marsden NHS Trust
  • Dr. J. Cole: Medical Research Council, University of Sussex
  • Dr. C. Cooper: The Institute of Cancer Research, Haddow Laboratories
  • Professor D. S. Davies: Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital
  • Professor H. J. Evans: Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital
  • Professor R. F. Newbold: The University of West London
  • Dr. D. J. Tweats: Glaxo Research and Development Ltd.
  • Dr. S. Venitt: The Institute of Cancer Research, Haddow Laboratories.

Current membership of the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment is as follows:

  • Members
  • Professor H. F. Woods (Chair): Royal Hallamshire Hospital
  • Professor P. Aggett: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Norwich
  • Dr. P. N. Bennett: University of Bath, Wolfson Centre
    • 536
  • Dr. N. A. Brown: Medical Research Council Experimental Embryology and Teratology Unit, St. George's Hospital Medical School
  • Dr. J. K. Chipman: The University of Birmingham
  • Professor A. D. Dayan: Department of Health Toxicology Laboratory
  • Professor G. G. Gibson: University of Surrey
  • Professor G. M. Hawksworth: University of Aberdeen
  • Dr. M. Joffe: St. Mary's Hospital Medical School
  • Dr. I. Kimber: Zeneca
  • Dr. D. Prentice: Self employed
  • Dr. A. G. Renwick: University of Southampton
  • Dr. A. G. Smith: University of Leicester
  • Dr. A. Thomas: Plymouth General Hospital
  • Dr. M. J. Tucker: Retired

Relevant grants for research from private companies are declared by members in the appropriate register of commercial interests. A copy of these are available in the Library.

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