Alec Kyriakides is a food safety consultant with over 35 years experience in the industry. In his 28 years with the retailer Sainsbury’s, Alec managed safety, quality, supplier performance, technical training, serious incidents, customer complaints, analytical assurance and the in-house accredited laboratory. Prior to Sainsbury’s, he worked in food manufacturing including the dairy and brewing industries. He is the co-author of books on the practical control of food borne pathogens including Salmonella, Listeria, C. botulinum, Campylobacter and E. coli. Alec is currently a Non Executive Board Director of Campden BRI, a Trustee of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) and has sat on a number of influential industry and government committees. He is Chair of the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food, Chair of the Safe to Trade Technical Standards Committee, Chair of the FSA Root Cause Analysis Steering Committee, Honorary Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast and former Chair of the BRCGS International Advisory Board.