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TRACE Advisory Board 1. Terms of reference Mission
Tasks
Composition of the TRACE Advisory Board is given below. All have signed or are in the process of signing the confidentiality agreement.
3. Profiles
In 2000 he became head of the unit concerned with supply chain management and he was the leader of a national research program on supply chain based risk analysis. The unit of supply chain management has been working on areas like the development, implementation and evaluation of food quality and safety systems as well as food information systems (including tracking and tracing) applied in the agricultural sector. In 2003 he joined the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (VWA) where his field of expertise is the risk assessment of contaminants in the food supply chain. In recent years he chaired two national symposia on tracking and tracing in the feed and food sector .
David Croston has over 30 years experience in the red meat sector, particularly beef and lamb. Practical experience in:- R&D, technology interaction, corporate PR, marketing and promotion. Most recently as CEO of The English Beef and Lamb Executive, established a new marketing and promotion agency for English beef and sheep producers within the new Devolved framework of the Meat and Livestock Commission in GB. A key achievement was the successful trade and consumer launch of a new Quality Standard Beef and Lamb. A recognised international sheep expert having served for six years as President of the Sheep and Goat commission of the European association of Animal Production. An effective communicator and team player experienced in crisis management.
4. Contact information
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Marcel Mengelers received his postgraduate degree in Veterinary
Pharmacology and Toxicology in 1991 at the Utrecht State University in the
Netherlands. He has worked as a food toxicologist for more than 10 years
at the Dutch Institute of Food Safety at Wageningen. In the beginning he
gained international recognition in the area of veterinary drug residues
in food. In the late nineties, he worked on the transfer of toxic compounds
in the food supply chain. 
Marjana Peterman is a volunteer food officer at Slovene
Consumer Association (SCA) and a project manager with the International Consumer
Research Institute (ICORI). She is also active with food, envorinment and
health committes at BEUC, CI and TACD. She spent more than 30 years in the
food industry, holding management and research positions, mainly in Canada.
ICORI is a research arm of SCA, where Marjana leads or participates in consumer
protection thematics research, mainly within Slovenia but also in other CEE
countries. Marjana holds a B.Sc. degree in Food Science and Technology from
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Professor Dr. Reiner Wittkowski is the Vice president
of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Germany. He is Professor
for food chemistry at the Berlin Technical University and President of the
International Organisation of Vine and Wine, an intergovernmental worldwide
organisation with the mission to harmonize technical standards and definitions
in the area of vine products. His scientific skills are the evaluation and
validation of analytical methods in foods, authenticity research and risk
assessment of foods, food ingredients and additives, contaminants and
residues.
Frank Hennigar , President, Food Systems Group of the Americas Inc. is
a member of the Can-Trace Standards Committee and Canadian Correspondent
for the Global Food Traceability Forum. He has spent more than 30 years in
the food and financial services industry in management, marketing, and operations.
Food Systems Group is a partner in Global Food Excellence and provides consulting
services, equipment, and systems integration for food processing plants through
an international network of business and technology partners. The company
is a leader in the design, development, and implementation of information
and production technology. Frank holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in accounting
from Dalhousie University. 
Mark Woolfe trained as a food scientist/technologist,
and joined MAFF in 1984. He has been involved with EC and UK Regulations
dealing with a range of specific foods such as meat products, fish, cereals,
chocolate etc, as well as basic research and surveillance. In 2000 Mark
transferred to the Food Standards Agency, where he has worked in Food
Labelling and Standards Division for four years. His responsibilities
included negotiation and implementation of more than six new EC measures
including the new EC definition of meat and the revision of the Meat Products
Regulations 2003. He represented the UK at several Codex Alimentarius
Commodity Committees (e.g. Fish and Fish Products, Sugars, Cocoa and Chocolate
Products, Processed Fruits and Vegetables). He was also responsible for
the Agency’s
Authenticity Programme of developing novel methods and carrying out
surveys to prevent mislabelling and misdescription of foods. 
Charles Hurburgh is professor at Iowa State University in the field of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering and professor-in-charge at Iowa Grain Quality Initiative. He is member of many professional societies (e.g. American Society of Agricultural Engineers, American Society of Cereal Chemists) and technical committees (e.g. Iowa Extension Grain Quality Initiative, US ISO Technical Advisory Group for TC 34
