CIEH Safe Food Conference

Two half-day conference: 21 and 22 November 2024 

CIEH member: £99
Affiliate member: £199
Non-member: £199
CIEH Student member: FOC

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About this conference

We're bringing local authority officers together with professionals across the private sector, from hospitality to our supermarkets, for a series of timely discussions around food safety.

Highlights from our 2024 agenda include: the future of food production labelling, third-party assurance schemes in supermarkets, junk food advertising bans and the obesity crisis, and policy updates from the Food Standards Agency (FSA).

Highlight topics

  • What can we expect for the future of food production labelling?
  • Examining the current climate and future scope for UK food policy
  • Junk food advertising ban: will this be effective in tackling the obesity crisis?
  • Case study: rat-infested bakery in Knowsley
  • Next steps: the inquest of Hannah Jacobs

Explore the full programme for day one and day two

CPD: 7 hours

Why should you attend?

  • Hear the latest updates for the public and private sector on all aspects relating to food safety and environmental health
  • Listen to high-level keynote speakers discussing the latest policies and guidance
  • Learn from recent work and case studies in monitoring and managing food safety

What past delegates thought

  • "All the elements were excellent."
  • "Everything had a value of interest."
  • "The speakers were inspiring."

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Belinda Stuart-Moonlight

Dr Belinda Stuart-Moonlight, Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner. Belinda specialises in food safety and infectious intestinal disease control. Early in her career, Belinda worked as an Environmental Health Officer in local government enforcement, before taking up a Junior Research Fellowship at King’s College London. For the last twenty years, Belinda has run her own business providing consultancy, training, auditing and expert witness services. As an expert witness, the majority of her instructions focus on food contamination risk, and increasingly, injury and death from food allergy. Belinda is regularly sought after to provide opinion for both prosecution and defence, as well as for Coroners inquests.

Katie Pettifer

Katie Pettifer is the Interim Chief Executive of the Food Standards Agency, a non-ministerial department which makes sure that food is safe and is what it says it is and helps to make food healthier and more sustainable.  Katie joined the FSA in July 2021 and stepped up as the interim Chief Executive in August 2024.  Before that, as director for strategy and regulatory compliance, she was a member of the FSA’s executive management team and was responsible for the FSA’s overall strategy, legal, communications, governance and project delivery teams.  She also led the FSA’s regulatory compliance work, working with local authorities to ensure that food businesses are complying with the law on food safety and standards, and developing new approaches for the future through the FSA’s 'Achieving Business Compliance' Programme.  She has previously been the Public Policy Director at Ofcom, where she played a major role in shaping Ofcom’s work on issues like improving mobile and broadband coverage across the UK, and working with the Government on new regulation to protect people from harmful content online.  She also sponsored Ofcom’s diversity and inclusion strategy. Before that she spent two decades in Whitehall departments, mainly in social policy roles.  She has held Senior Civil Service roles in the Ministry of Justice, the Cabinet Office and the Northern Ireland Office.

Michael Hughes

Michael Hughes is a Senior Environmental Health Officer at Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council on Merseyside. Mike qualified as an EHP in 2004 and has worked for three separate authorities working in the enforcement of food safety, health and safety, and animal welfare legislation. He is currently the lead officer for food safety at Knowsley Council. Mike has experience inspecting and enforcing food safety law at a wide range of food businesses.

Professor Robin May

Professor Robin May, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Professor of Infectious Disease at the University of Birmingham. Professor May, took up his role as the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in July 2020. As the FSA’s Chief Scientific Adviser, he provides expert scientific advice to the UK government and plays a critical role in helping to understand how scientific developments will shape the work of the FSA, as well as the strategic implications of any possible changes. He is responsible for the integrity of the science and evidence that underpins FSA activities, as well as for communicating the FSA’s evidence-based approach to other government departments, external stakeholders and consumers.  Professor May’s early training was in Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford, followed by a PhD on mammalian cell biology at University College London and the University of Birmingham. After postdoctoral research on gene silencing at the Hubrecht Laboratory, The Netherlands, he returned to the UK in 2005 to establish a research program on human infectious diseases. He was Director of the Institute of Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham from 2017-2020. He continues his work on Infectious Disease at the University of Birmingham. A Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and the Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor May also specialises in research into human infectious diseases, with a particular focus on how pathogens survive and replicate within host organisms. In May 2022 he was appointed as the 39th Gresham Professor of Physic, a role in which he provides public lectures on medicine, health and related sciences.


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