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Committee members

Published 25 June 2026

1. Professor Nick Wheelhouse

Nick is currently Professor of Comparative Infectious Disease at Edinburgh Napier University, he holds a BSc in Agricultural Biochemistry and Nutrition from Newcastle University and a PhD in Animal Science from the University of Aberdeen. He has worked in veterinary research for the majority of his research career and continues at Napier to collaborate on a number of agriculture and animal health related projects both in the UK and overseas with a range of academic and industry partners. Nick is one of the co-leads of the Animal Health and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Intensity Network, he is an affiliated researcher at the University of Glasgow and external examiner for the Royal Veterinary College.

2. Dr Barry Bradford

Dr Barry Bradford is a lecturer and research lead at The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at The University of Edinburgh. He has a BSc (Hons), MSc and PhD from the University of Edinburgh and over 25 years of experience working on prion diseases, also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).

3. Martin Briggs

Martin Briggs is a feed industry expert with over 46 years’ experience in farm animal feeds. He has a degree in Applied Biology and is currently employed as a technical manager for GLW Feeds Ltd, a large multi-species compound feed manufacturer, with previous roles as mill and operations manager.

Martin Briggs has an extensive overview and direct practical experience of feed safety, including microbiological, chemical, physical and prevention of contamination, plus salmonella control (involving both heat treatment and biocide treatment of poultry breeder feeds), medicines in feeds, feed manufacturing, feed quality, nutrition and formulations across all farm animal species, plus health and safety of feed mill operations including Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH).

Martin Briggs has been a member of the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) and the previous Animal Feed and Feed Additives Joint Expert Group (AFFAJEG) since 2019 and is a member of the Agricultural Industries Federation (AIC – Trade Association), Universal feed Assurance Scheme (UFAS) Working and Review Groups and is also a United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) Technical Assessor and a Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA) and UFAS schemes auditor. He has worked on a number of feed industry working groups and has provided training on feed mill auditing and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) for trading standards officers.

4. Professor Emily Burton

Emily Burton is Professor of Sustainable Food Production and co-lead for Nottingham Trent University (NTU) Sustainable Futures Research Theme. She has worked alongside the poultry industry on research programmes for 25 years and now leads the University’s Poultry Nutrition Research Unit. From 2018-21, Burton was president of the World’s Poultry Science Association UK Branch, and currently represents the UK on 2 European working groups (Nutrition and Education), and is a member of the Egg and Poultry Industry Conference organising committee. Emily is also trustee for the British Poultry Science Journal, and the Gordon Memorial Trust.

Alongside publications in her field, Emily publishes multidisciplinary research with colleagues at NTU and externally spanning both biosciences and humanities. Alongside her research, Emily’s passion is for helping students to develop into scientists capable of making a tangible contribution to the advancement of animal science and global food security. Emily leads a group of researchers who collaborate globally on projects exploring viability of novel feed materials in differing economic and environmental settings. Her poultry research has been used in many impact cases studies and was reported by Research Councils UK to UK government as generating a pipeline of high calibre scientists into a sector with a skills shortage. In 2023 Burton was opening key note speaker at European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition, Italy, and also at the South African Animal Feed Manufacturers Association; and in October 2022 was invited by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to speak at their poultry veterinarian CPD event in Bangladesh on nutritional strategies to reduce antimicrobial resistance.

5. Professor Katrina Campbell

Katrina Campbell is a Professor in Food Security and Diagnostics within the Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast.  Her research focuses on the examination of food systems for the identification and recognition of known and emerging threats including fraud within the food supply chain from “environment to farm to fork to waste” and to determine any consequential effects to plant, animal and human health. A key element of this research is the development of (bio) analytical approaches that can be used for the rapid detection of natural toxins, chemical contaminants, allergens and harmful organisms, as tools to enhance food safety and sustainability. These state-of-the-art scientific techniques and next generation biosensor tools as multiplex detection systems may create a new facet in rapid food safety monitoring and traceability for the benefit of plant, animal and human health with an outlook to increasing food security. Her research also involves examining the impact of the effects of contamination and the implementation of these new diagnostic tools in the food supply chain to all stakeholders including academia, industry, policy makers & consumers. She is extremely interested in the development and implementation and communication of citizen science diagnostics for the future.  She is the chairperson for the NI Royal Society of Biology, a committee member for the NI Royal Society of Chemistry, a member of the International Society for the study of Harmful Algae (ISSHA) and a previous member of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) Animal Feed and Feed Additives Joint Expert Group (AFFAJEG). She has >120 publications, H-Index 39 and extensive network within EIT Food & EU projects.

6. Professor Nicholas Jonsson

Nicholas Jonsson graduated as a veterinary surgeon from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 1987 and worked as a mixed veterinary practitioner in rural New South Wales for 7 years. In 1995 he commenced a PhD in bovine reproduction at the University of Queensland, and he was subsequently employed by the Queensland Government as a researcher in dairy science, before taking academic positions at the University of Glasgow and then again University of Queensland. He returned to Glasgow in 2009, where he was Professor of Animal Health and Production until December 2024. His teaching, consultancy and research interests are in animal health and management, with emphasis on systems for efficient cattle production. The main strands of his research are ruminant gut function and pathology, the use of sensor technologies to optimize ruminant health and production, the genetics of adaptation in cattle, and sustainable strategies for parasite management. He is the editor in chief of the Journal of Dairy Research, and the head of ruminant, technical for Harbro Limited, and Honorary Professor of Animal Health and Production at the University of Glasgow.

7. Hannah Kane

Ms Hannah Kane has over 11 years’ experience in the feed and food industry specifically in the agri supply trade industry, specifically the import/export of raw material ingredients used for animal feed as well as UK grain origination. She has a BSc (Hons) degree in Nutrition from the Robert Gordon University and Credit and Qualifications Framework (CQFW) Level 7 in Livestock Nutrition & Feeding from the University of Reading and is currently working as a quality, health & safety deputy for Cefetra Ltd.

Hannah Kane has experience within the feed industry looking at all aspects of feed and food safety including auditing and risk assessing the supply chain, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), implementing EU and national regulations, as well as assurance scheme requirements. She is a International Organization for Standardization (ISo) 9001 lead auditor and is currently working as a quality, health & safety deputy for Cefetra Ltd, one of the major traders of grains and animal feed raw materials in the UK and Ireland. Additionally, Hannah is Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSHH) qualified with knowledge in health and safety within the Agri supply trade industry.

Hannah Kane is also a member on the Agricultural Industries Federation (AIC) working groups for the TASCC (Trade assurance scheme for combinable crops) and FEMAS (Feed materials Assurance Scheme).

8. Susan MacDonald

Ms Susan MacDonald is a chemical safety scientist with over 32 years’ experience working on analysis and providing advice and training on mycotoxins and natural toxins in food and feed. She has a degree in food science obtained from the University of Strathclyde. Immediately after graduation she started work at the then Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) Food Science Laboratory in Norwich, working on development of analytical methods and investigation of sampling plans for mycotoxins.  After working at the Food Science Laboratory for nearly a decade, the laboratory was re-located to Sand Hutton and after a number of changes become Fera Science Ltd.  During that time, she has developed her role and is now science lead for natural toxins. She has led numerous studies on mycotoxins, plant toxins and other chemical contaminants in food and feed funded by bodies such as Food Standards Agency (FSA), Food Standards Scotland (FSS), European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the EU, individual companies and trade bodies contributing to safety evidence and industry guidance. She has authored approximately 50 peer reviewed publications, on topics as diverse as sampling for aflatoxins, collaborative method validation studies, surveys of plant toxins in foods and the effects of mycotoxins on garden birds.  

Ms MacDonald works with consortia to develop and deliver collaborative projects that result in evidence that is used to develop safety strategies. She has acted as head of the UK National Reference Laboratory functions for Contaminants in food and feed for over 10 years, resulting in an understanding of a broad range of chemical contaminant issues.  She has been a member for over 20 years of several international working groups on analytical methods including CEN TC327 WG5, Natural Toxins in Animal Feed working collaboratively with international colleagues to develop European Standards for analysis. She has also carried out training on analysis and laboratory quality systems (ISO 17025) on behalf of the UK and other governments, the EU, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/WHO.

9. Dr Donald Morrison

Dr Morrison is a microbiologist of 30 years’ plus experience working in the field of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). He was a clinical scientist/microbiologist in public health and medical microbiology laboratories for 21 years at the UK Health Security Agency national reference laboratory and the Scottish MRSA Reference Laboratory. His present post is as a lecturer in microbiology at Edinburgh Napier University, including teaching responsibilities in Hong Kong and Sri Lanka. His work on AMR has covered the three domains - human, animal and environment - of a One Health approach, publishing widely and involved in various national and international research projects. Projects have included collaboration with key stakeholders including Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Scottish Water, NovaBiotics Ltd, Schuelke & Mayr and the Forth Rivers Trust. He is also involved in various research networks including the EU Network of European Regions Using Space Technologies (NEREUS) cost action network, Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR) global network, the Scotland-India Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment Network (SIAMREN), Scottish Environmental AMR Group and the Edinburgh AMR Forum Working Group.

He has provided expert advice to SEPA, the Scottish Government AMR group (AMR in the Environment in Scotland & Stakeholders) and contributed to two national AMR reports (Scottish One Health Antimicrobial Use and Antimicrobial Resistance (SONAAR) and the UK Veterinary Medicines Directorate 3rd UK One Health Report). He is an editor for JAC-AMR, (a British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) journal), and is regularly engaged in peer review of manuscripts and is a member of several microbiology societies (BSAC, Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM) and Microbiology society). In addition, he has reviewed research funding applications for the Scottish Government and the UK Medical Research Council.

10. Derek Renshaw

Derek Renshaw is an independent toxicologist with over 40 years of experience of assessing the safety of materials, with particular reference to the chemical safety of substances to which humans might be exposed. He graduated in 1979 in Applied Biology having studied an option in Nutrition and Toxicology. After graduation he worked in the laboratory of the Department of Health’s Toxicology Unit at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. Then at the end of 1981, he moved to an office-based job, evaluating toxicological data on various types of substances (including animal feedingstuffs, food additives, veterinary medicines, pesticides, novel foods and processes, irradiated foods, food contaminants, and industrial chemicals) for the Department of Health, staying in a similar role in the Food Standards Agency (FSA) when it was set up.

He worked on the secretariats of various scientific committees in the UK including the Committees on Toxicology (COT), Carcinogenicity (COC) and Mutagenicity (COM), and the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) as well as the EU Committee on Veterinary Medicinal Products (CVMP) and internationally the Veterinary International Congress on Harmonisation (VICH) and Joint Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/WHO meetings on Food Additive (JECFA) and on Pesticides (JMPR). He was a member of EU committees on animal feedingstuffs; the Scientific Committee on Animal Nutrition (SCAN) and the Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP).  In 2010, he took early retirement from the FSA, but kept working for FEEDAP and some of its working groups until 2015. From March 2021, he was a member of the UK’s Joint Expert Group on Animal Feed and Feed Additives (AFFAJEG) until its end in October 2022, when the Advisory Committee on Animal Feedingstuffs (ACAF) was reconvened. 

Mr Renshaw was included in the UK Register of Toxicologists in 1994 and in 1996 was admitted as a member of the Institute of Biology. In 1997, he was certified as a Federation of European Toxicologists and European Societies of Toxicology (EUROTOX) registered toxicologist and certified as a european biologist with the European Communities Biologists Association. In 1999, he was admitted as a member of the European College of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology.

11. Dr Michael Salter

Dr. Michael Salter was a scientific advisor to the senior leadership team of AB Agri Ltd. 

For in excess of 9 years he worked as an innovation scout and research manager for AB Agri looking to understand innovation in the commercial livestock industry. This involved global travel discussing advances in livestock animal nutrition with companies and academics across Europe, Asia and the United States. Dr Salter sought to understand how feed additives might help improve environmental and financial factors in the commercial livestock industry. In particular Dr Salter has been seeking to understand the microbiome and looking for developments that would improve animal performance via manipulation of the microbiome. Dr Salter has also worked extensively on removal of antibiotics from commercial livestock systems.

Prior to working in commercial livestock Dr Salter worked for INVISTA intermediates as a senior scientist investigating bio based routes to chemical intermediates. In his early career Dr Salter spent 25 years in academia as a specialist molecular geneticist and was a lecturer in Neuroscience at the University of Leeds UK. In addition to core skills Dr Salter has received training in and has expertise in laboratory health and safety, large scale academic project management, large scale commercial project management, advisory to Universities and academic institutions on how academics can interact with industrial partners.

12. Dr Adam Smith

Dr Adam Smith holds a BSc in Animal Sciences from the University of London and a PhD in Poultry Nutrition from Harper Adams University. He currently works for DSM Nutritional Products Ltd where he is the lead for feed enzymes in Europe, Middle East & Africa region. He has more than 25 years’ experience of the global animal nutrition industry during which he has held various management roles in market leading companies operating in the feed premix and additive sectors. Within these employments he has had responsibility for technical support of feed industry and farmer customers, running scientific innovation projects, managing regulatory affairs and the development and roll out of strategic commercial plans.

His specific area of scientific expertise lies in the field of poultry and swine nutrition, with an emphasis on micronutrition, feed hygiene and environmental impact. In particular, he has a strong interest in feed enzyme innovation and actively participates and leads in various projects tasked with developing and bringing to the market new enzyme molecules. He also conducts research into and participates in a range of nutritional projects focussing on aspects of mineral, fibre and amino acid nutrition, as well as the environmental impact of livestock farming.

13. Christel Wake

Christel has over 25 years of experience in agriscience, working for both government and industry, and she specialises in residues in food and dietary risk assessment. She started her career working for the Central Science Laboratory, an executive agency of DEFRA (now Fera Science), where she developed a High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) multiresidue method to determine pesticide residues in food. She later joined the UK regulatory authority responsible for the regulation of pesticides, and has represented the UK as a technical expert at a range of EC and European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) meetings, in addition to delivering training on pesticide chemistry, residues and dietary risk assessment to industry and members of EU pre-accession countries. She has also provided technical support to the UK pesticide residue monitoring programs, interpretation of the significance of the results and assistance in the development and planning of future surveys. Since 2011, she has held various regulatory and scientific leadership roles with market leading agrochemical companies. Christel has a BSc (Hons) degree in Chemistry and a MSC in Chemistry (by Research) from the University of York.

14. Dr Helen Warren

In 1999, Dr. Warren achieved her primary degree in Animal Science from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, followed by her PhD in fatty acids in beef from the Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences at the University of Bristol. She is a qualified lecturer and spent five years lecturing degree students in animal and equine science before moving to industry. She is a senior visiting fellow at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, a trustee of the British Society of Animal Science and a member of the Nutrition Society Membership committee. She is also a member of the Society of Feed Technologists and the Royal Society of Biology. In the field, Dr Warren is a Cow Signals master trainer and a registered animal scientist. She currently works as a european technical manager for ruminants and horses for Alltech, involving initiating European research projects, as well as delivering nutritional education and technical sales support. She is also a freelance technical writer for agricultural lay publications.

15. Professor Carla Viegas

Professor Carla Viegas graduated in Environmental Health from the Lisbon School of Health Technology – Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon, holds a Master’s degree in Safety and Ergonomics from the University of Lisbon and a PhD in Occupational and Environmental Health from NOVA University Lisbon. Her primary field of study is occupational and environmental microbiology, in which she has led and contributed to numerous national and international research projects.

Her special interests include occupational exposure to fungi in highly contaminated environments, the integration of culture-based methods with molecular tools to assess fungal exposure, and the impact of climate change on microbial contamination and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). She has extensive experience conducting sampling campaigns across diverse occupational settings, employing comprehensive sampling and analytical approaches to evaluate multiple microbiological agents.

She is a full professor at the Lisbon School of Health Technology and served as director of the master’s program in Occupational Health for 12 years. She is also an active researcher at several institutions, including the Health & Technology Research Center (H&TRC) at Escola Superior de Saúde de Lisboa (ESTeSL-IPL), the NOVA National School of Public Health, the Public Health Research Centre at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, and the Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC). Carla has numerous publications and conference presentations in her areas of specialization.