Experience

Food Standards Agency

• United Kingdom
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Regulatory Engagement and Intelligence

  • Jan 2023 - Present

• Head of Science Assurance and Coordination Team

  • Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

• Head of Strategic Science and Assurance Team

  • Aug 2019 - Jan 2021

  Head of Science Assurance and Scientific Advisory Committee Coordination Team. Secretary to Science Council and Chief scientific advisor official.

• Team Leader- Food Allergy & Intolerance Policy

  • Jan 2019 - Aug 2019

  Lead for allergen labelling review and implementation of allergen labelling for prepacked for direct sale foods.Codex Committee on Food Hygiene- UK Co-Chair eWG Code of Practice on allergen management.Codex Committee on Food Labelling- UK co-chair eWG on review of STAN 1-1985Expert witness for allergen legislative breaches

• Acting Head of Food Additives, Flavourings and Contact Materials

  • Jul 2018 - Dec 2018

  Risk management and policy development

• Senior Scientific Officer - Food Allergen Legislation and Risk Assessment.

  • Apr 2012 - Jul 2018

  Leads and oversees the provision of risk assessments for management of food allergen incidents Leads on development of guidance and advice on food allergen labelling rules within EU Regulation No. 1169/2011.Leads workstreams on food allergen detection methods and food allergen thresholds - derivation of reference doses for allergen precautionary labellingSub-programme manager for FSA's adult allergy research programme

• Senior Scientific Officer - Food Allergy Branch

  • Oct 2008 - Apr 2012

  Allergen Threshold Programme Manager - developing action levels of the adventitious presence of allergens in food.Lead for the risk assessment of food allergen incidents.Contact point for the Allergy Labelling aspects of the Food Information for Consumers Regulation

• Senior Scientific Officer

  • Jul 2003 - Oct 2008

  UK microbiological food surveillance.UK reporter for EU trends and sources reportZoonoses - risk assessmentMember of Human Animal Infections Risk Surveillance Group



The Oil Fields, Sydney, Australia; St Thomas's Hospital, London

• Research Assistant

  • May 1998 - Aug 1999

  Microbiological research - the effectiveness of tea tree oil on multiple-anitbiotic resistant bacteria. Microbiological research - the effectiveness of tea tree oil on multiple-anitbiotic resistant bacteria.