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THE FOOD CLUB SUPPORT TEAM |
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Contact The Food Club Helpdesk for assistance
on Telephone 020 8868 0113 or by E-mail to admin@thefoodclub.org.uk
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Business and Quality Development Douglas Brown Doug has 40 years food industry experience. His background was in production and project management, research & development and sales before being appointed Corporate Quality Manager for Express Foods Group International. His specialist areas include quality systems; hazard analysis and risk assessment & HACCP; product recall procedures and incident management in cases of malicious contamination (he has worked with Scotland Yard on a number of occasions). He is a trained lead assessor and a food industry specialist assessor for Det Norske Veritas Quality Assurance Ltd, one of the UK's leading ISO 9000 certification bodies. Apart from countries in the European Union, Doug has worked in Lebanon, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Russia and the USA. Ian Purse Ian is a food industry Technical Manager by training and has over 25 years experience in the high-risk chilled foods sector. He works as an International BRC & BRC/IOP Auditor on behalf of one of the major UK Food Safety Accreditation Companies. In addition he also works in the UK helping food manufacturers prepare their Quality Management Systems for accreditation to these Standards.
New product development and packaging Peter Addington Peter has 30+ years experience of packaging and food product development gained in multinational companies and in consultancy. He has worked in Bulgaria; Egypt; Hong Kong; India; Israel; Japan; Nigeria; South Africa; Western Europe and the USA. Peter is an Adviser on the packaging industry status to the international financial investment industry and a frequent writer and speaker on food packaging topics. He is also accredited from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and is now able to conduct export packaging projects sponsored by the both the UN and the International Trade Centre (ITC) in Geneva.
Legal Assistance Ron Reid Ron is a Partner with Shoosmiths and is head of their Food Law Unit. He has extensive experience in helping food companies in areas such as Due Diligence defence, formalising contracts between purchasers and suppliers, advising on Food Legislation, Health & Safety Requirements, import & export requirements etc.
Food Safety Training Jane Thompson Jane is a Consultant Environmental Health Officer with a BSc (Hons) in Agricultural Zoology from Leeds University and a Diploma in Environmental Health from Matthew Bolton Technical College in Birmingham. She has worked in the Environmental Health Departments, at senior level, for the City of Westminster, where she was involved in the investigation of the 1988 salmonella outbreak in the House of Lords, and the London Borough of Harrow. She has undertaken training in "Current Concepts of Food Microbiology in Environmental Health"; "HACCP and Assured Self Catering" as well as "How to HACCP". Her expertise lies in the areas of audits of companies for compliance with food hygiene and health & safety legislation; Legionnaire outbreak investigations; pollution control and training. She also has experience of successful prosecutions of food companies not complying with the Food Safety Act.
Nutrition labelling and introduction to general labelling Dr Jack Chudy By training a chemist, Jack is a Technical Consultant with the Eclipse Scientific Group, which has extensive UKAS accredited food testing laboratories. He works with several other food companies on technical matters, including compliance with food legislation, product labelling and nutritional information. For imported goods, he advises on product re-labelling for the UK market as well as on the legality of ingredients.
Marketing and
promotion of food and food products by visual communications A passion for photography and an
opportunity to study at The Kodak School of Photography gave the key to
freelance throughout the UK and Western Europe. |