Campylobacter working group appoints chair
Moy Park and Dairy Crest non-executive director, Richard MacDonald CBE has been appointed as the chair for the joint industry and government body focussed on reducing campylobacter in chicken.
Mac Donald will lead the Joint Working Group, a collaboration between the Food Standards Agency, British Poultry Council, British Retail Consortium, National Farmers Union and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to reduce the 280,000 estimated cases of campylobacter each year.
He said he was “very pleased” to have been asked to deliver meaningful progress in reducing the pathogen.
“I look forward to working with industry and government in this fight against a naturally occurring bug that is a very complex and persistent opponent,” he said.
“This is where we have to enact all that we’ve learnt over the last five years. The UK is leading the way on what is a global issue, and we have a responsibility to apply ourselves diligently and consistently to solving the problem.”