Brian Whitehouse Associates

Brian Whitehouse BSc PhD
Consultant in food regulations and chemical aspects of food.
Brian Whitehouse Associates offer expert services covering food additives, novel foods, food chemistry, food manufacturing processes, food hygiene, food ingredients, food specifications and regulations. Wide experience with food regulatory bodies including European Commission, USA FDA, JECFA, Codex Alimentarius, etc.

Member of the Chemical & Industrial Consultants Association

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CONSULTANCY OFFERED
Advice on European Union and US food regulatory affairs relating to food additives, novel foods and foodstuffs in general, including good manufacturing practice, hygiene and other aspects of food manufacturing.
The Consultancy operates in UK and overseas.

CONSULTANCY SERVICES
Preparation and submission of toxicological dossiers to regulatory bodies, such as national governments, the Scientific Committee for Food of the Commission of the European Communities, Food and Drug Administration of the US, the FAO/ WHO Joint Experts Committee on Food Additives (JECFA).

Negotiation with the Commission and Member States administrations, and FDA in relation to food regulatory affairs. Services offered have proved useful to chemical and allied manufacturing companies and to smaller food companies which may not have in-house expertise in dealing with food regulatory affairs, .

Knowledge of, and experience in dealing with the European Commission, Member States' Ministries and the FDA is invaluable in these matters.


The majority of clients are outside the UK.

EXPERIENCE
Production, marketing and technical management in the chemical and food processing industries;
company representation in Trade Associations;
monitoring and lobbying in relation to proposed legislation.
Participation as Chairman in ISO technical committees;
participation in Codex Alimentarius Committees on Food Additives and Contaminants, and Methods of Analysis and Sampling.
Introduction ofISO 9002 (BS 5750), to Cerestar on a Europe-wide basis and administration of company European quality assurance.
Ten years living in Brussels, working with nationals and governments of all European countries.
Member and Secretary of the former working group which produced the International Pharmaceutical Excipients Committee Good Manufacturing Practices Manual.
Represented the Food Additives and Food Enzymes Industry Federation on European Commission Food Additive Specifications working group.
Member of the FAO/WHO Joint Experts Committee on Food Additives. (JECFA)

Reasonably skilled in French, with some German and Dutch.

CAREER

Albright and Wilson
- P.A. to the Market Development Director
- Trainee shift manager (phosphates manufacture)

Midland Silicones
- Manager of several plants (intermediates for silicones)

CPC (UK)
- Production manager, Manchester starch-from-maize plant
- Commercial manager, paper, textiles, etc industries
- Manufacturing director, Manchester plant
- Technical director CPC Europe (Known as Cerestar since 1987)
- Food regulatory affairs and quality assurance manager, based in Brussels, operating all over Europe.

Brian Whitehouse Associates
- Consultant, food regulatory affairs since January 1994


QUALIFICATIONS
Graduated in Biological Chemistry (IIA) from the University of Bristol, followed by a Ph.D. awarded for research into the enzyme "Arginase", carried out in the Veterinary School of Bristol.

CONTACT DETAILS
Dr Brian Whitehouse MBE, Brian Whitehouse Associates, 6 Church Bank, Richmond Road, Bowdon, Cheshire WA14 3NW UK
Telephone : (44) (0) 161 928 6681 Fax : (44) (0) 161 929 8544
E_mail : brian@churchbank.demon.co.uk

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