Food Advisory Panel
This panel advises us on food policy and campaigns.
This panel advises us on food policy, campaigns and our wider activities relating to food.
CIEH has established advisory panels across the five key environmental health disciplines. Our Food Advisory Panel helps to inform our policy position, advises us on campaigns, consultation responses and submissions and provides a source of expertise and knowledge to inform our wider activities. Where possible, we will seek to engage our wider membership in policy and campaigning work. These opportunities will arise through our popular Food Coffee and Catch Ups and be advertised in Member Connect and in our Food Community Newsletter.
Our panel includes representatives from the public and private sectors and academia. To reflect that food is a devolved function, the nations are also represented. Panel members have been selected for their experience, passion and expertise as well as their networking skills. Our expectation is that they will be true advocates for the profession and for CIEH. All panel members are CIEH members and work with us on a voluntary basis.
CIEH are members of:
- The National Food Hygiene Rating Steering Group
- The Sustain Alliance
- The Safe, Sustainable Authentic Food Wales (SSAFW) Committee
- The Border Regulatory Research (BRRG) Group
- The Wales Food Safety Expert Panel
- The Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) Northern Ireland
- The Advisory Panel for Belfast Food Network
Panel Members
| Colin Kelly | Head of Environmental Health | Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council |
| Daniel Morelli | Head of Public Protection | Torfaen Council |
| Deborah Bailey | Senior Environmental Health Officer | Sandwell Council |
| Diana Tumova | Principal Port Health Officer | Ashford Port Health |
| Earl Legister | Team Leader - Food Safety | London Borough of Southwark |
| Helen Atkinson | Senior Environmental Health Officer | Wakefield Council |
| Helen Groves | Chartered EHP/ Food Safety Consultant | Worcestershire Regulatory Services/Food Safety Logic |
| Jon Payne | Lawyer | Safety Lawyers |
| Lisa Cobb | Group & UK Head of Health, Food & Fire Safety | SSP Group PLC |
| Paula O’Neill | Environmental Health Manager (Food Control) | Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council |
| Peter Brett | Commercial Environmental Health Manager | City of London Corporation |
| Sam Bacon | Food, Health and Safety Manager | Hull City Council |
| Sandra Moore | Technical Director | Hygenisys Environmental Health Consultancy |
| Sarah Naylor | Operations Manager | Saeker |
| Sian Buckley | Associate Lecturer Environmental Health - Food | University of the West of England |
| Sterling Crew | Chair | Food Authenticity Network |
Current areas of work
Our food panel has recently been refreshed to be more reflective of CIEH membership. We anticipate a busy year ahead with the food industry facing unprecedented challenges and regulators emerging from the demands of the COVID pandemic. Big ticket items such as the National Food Strategy for England, food poverty, food shortages, impacts of climate change, healthy and sustainable food, obesity, changes to the regulatory landscape, imports and exports are all of interest to environmental health professionals and are expected to feature in our work programme.
See our consultation responses and press releases.
Contacting the Panel
If you would like to get in touch with the Food Policy Advisory Panel, please email [email protected].
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