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Ask The Expert: FSA s Mark Bond: animal feed and food chain
By Mark Bond In this Ask The Expert, Mark Bond, a senior scientific adviser at the Food Standards Agency (FSA) discusses the overlap between animal feed issues and consumer foods.
Background
I am the FSA’s senior policy adviser for feed additives.
The FSA was established in 2000 as the UK competent authority for food and feed. It was asked with maintaining safety of the food chain to protect consumers following such events as the UK BSE [
bovine spongiform encephalopathy]
outbreak.
I joined in 2013, initially as a project manager, setting up major research contracts worth over £1m, investigating Campylobacter and norovirus in foodstuffs.