Chris Elliott
In early September, the UK government published the final report of the Elliott review into the integrity and assurance of food supply networks. Chris Elliott, Professor of Food Safety and Director of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University, conducted the independent review.
He laid out a national food-crime-prevention framework in the report and described eight pillars of food integrity: Consumers First; Zero Tolerance; Intelligence Gathering; Laboratory Services; Audit; Government Support; Leadership; and Crisis Management.
Following the report’s publication, the UK government accepted all its recommendations and said it would set up a new Food Crime Unit. It also plans to introduce improved labelling and traceability guidelines.
Improving public procurement of food and catering services, and introducing a new national food
curriculum are also now priorities, said the government.
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Chris recently wrote a blog post for Knowledge Networks on untargeted testing. You can read it here.
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Chris is giving a free online course, Tackling the Global Food Crisis: Supply Chain Integrity, from Nov 17th for five weeks. See http://safefood.ning.com/profiles/blogs/free-online-course-tackling-the-global-food-crisis-supply-chain-i
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