Food Advisory Panel

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

Name	Job title	Employer
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
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.

“As a member of the CIEH Food Advisory Panel, I can confidentially say the experience is incredibly rewarding. The opportunity to discuss key issues with professional colleagues from all sectors is invaluable. I am proud to contribute to discussions and consultation responses, and it’s reassuring to know that each members opinion is respected and valued.”
Lisa Cobb, Group Head of Safety

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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