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Martin Briggs

Last updated: 02 September 2024

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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 and a GAFTA and UFAS schemes auditor. 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 

Category of Interest

Organisation/body and nature of interest (period)

Direct employment

Forfarmers UK: fee paying consultancy

Other fee-paid work from relevant organisations, consultancies

KIWA: Auditor for UFAS Scheme.

NSF: Auditor for GAFTA Standards.

UKAS: Technical Assessor for feed assurance schemes (2021 to present).

AIC (Agricultural Industries Confederation): fee paying consultancy.

Anitox: fee paying consultancy.

2Agriculture: fee paying consultancy.

Progressus Agrischools: fee paying training & consultancy.

Eirfuels: fee paying consultancy

Gerard Poly Mouldings: fee paying consultancy

Member of Food Standards Agency ACMSF (Advisory Committee on Microbiological Safety of Feed).

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; Society of Feed Technologists Member; Aardvark Certification: Member of Impartiality Committee.

Other personal interests

Society of Feed Technologists Honorarium for Paper on ‘The Challenges Facing Feed Production’ £100 2019.

Society of Feed Technologists Honorarium for Paper on ‘The Management of Energy within the Feed Mill ’ £100 2016.

Anitox Ltd Meal £150 2018.

DSL Systems Ltd 40th Anniversary Dinner (£50 estimated) 12 September 2019.

Defra group for review of Compound Feed Salmonella Code of Practise 2022 – member.

Food Standards Agency ACMSF TSE subgroup member 2022.

Non-Personal

Category of Interest

Organisation/body and nature of interest (period)

Fellowships endowed by relevant organisations

Training provided through GLW Feeds Ltd for Midlands Trading Standards Officers on Feed Mill Auditing and HACCP (2017).
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 

Category of Interest Organisation/body and nature of interest (period)

Direct employment

GLW Feeds Ltd (Employee) (2006 to 2023).

PAULS Agriculture Ltd / BOCM PAULS Ltd (now ForFarmers) (Employee) (1976 to 2006).

Eurofins Forensic Testing (2023 to 2024).
Other fee-paid work from relevant organisations, consultancies Consultancy for Agricultural Industries Federation (AIC – Trade Association).

Membership, affiliation, trusteeships or decision-making position with relevant organisations

Member of GAFTA GTAS IDTF working group (2015 to 2017).

Non-Personal 

Category of Interest

Organisation/body and nature of interest (period)

Indirect financial or non-financial support from relevant organisations

Anitox Ltd: collaborative work with GLW Feeds on replacement biocides (2016- 2018).