Martin Briggs
Last updated: 28 October 2022
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Martin Briggs is a feed industry expert with over 46 years’ experience in farm animal feeds. He has a degree in Applied Biology and is currently employed as a Technical Manager for GLW Feeds Ltd, a large multi-species compound feed manufacturer, with previous roles as Mill and Operations Managers.
Martin Briggs has an extensive overview and direct practical experience of feed safety, including microbiological, chemical, physical and prevention of contamination, plus salmonella control (involving both heat treatment and biocide treatment of poultry breeder feeds), medicines in feeds, feed manufacturing, feed quality, nutrition and formulations across all farm animal species, plus Health and Safety of feed mill operations including COSHH.
Martin Briggs has been a member of the FSA ACMSF and the previous AFFAJEG since 2019 and is a member of the Agricultural Industries Federation (AIC – Trade Association) UFAS (Universal feed Assurance Scheme) Working and Review Groups and is also a UKAS Technical Assessor. He has worked on a number of feed industry working groups and has provided training on feed mill auditing and HACCP for Trading Standards Officers.
Register of Interests
Current
Personal
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Category of Interest |
Organisation/body and nature of interest (period) |
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Direct employment |
GLW Feeds Ltd (Employee) (2006 to present) |
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Other fee-paid work from relevant organisations, consultancies |
UKAS (Technical Assessor) (2021 to present) Member of Food Standards Agency ACMSF ( Advisory Committee on Microbiological Safety of Feed) |
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Membership, affiliation, trusteeships or decision-making position with relevant organisations |
Agricultural Industries Federation (AIC – Trade Association) UFAS (Universal feed Assurance Scheme) Member of Working Group and Review Group; Member of AIC Feed Executive Committee; Member of AIC Manufacturing Group |
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Other personal interests |
Defra group for review of Compound Feed Salmonella Code of Practise 2022 – member Food Standards Agency ACMSF TSE subgroup member 2022 |
Non-Personal
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Category of Interest |
Organisation/body and nature of interest (period) |
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Fellowships endowed by relevant organisations |
Training provided through GLW Feeds Ltd for Midlands Trading Standards Officers on Feed Mill Auditing and HACCP (2017 and expected again in 2022) |
| Indirect financial or non-financial support from relevant organisations | Campden BRI: Salmonella Surrogate kill step validation joint project (Campden BRI and GLW Feeds) (2021 onwards) |
Historical Interests
Personal
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Direct employment |
PAULS Agriculture Ltd / BOCM PAULS Ltd (now ForFarmers) (Employee) (1976 to 2006) |
| Other fee-paid work from relevant organisations, consultancies | Consultancy for Agricultural Industries Federation (AIC – Trade Association) |
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Membership, affiliation, trusteeships or decision-making position with relevant organisations |
Member of GAFTA GTAS IDTF working group (2015 to 2017) |
Non-Personal
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Indirect financial or non-financial support from relevant organisations |
Anitox Ltd: collaborative work with GLW Feeds on replacement biocides (2016- 2018) |