Meat Hygiene Service Board
The functions of the MHS Board, a sub-committee of the FSA Board, are to give strategic direction to the MHS within the overall strategy agreed by the FSA Board; and to set appropriate targets for the MHS and monitor its performance and hold it to account on behalf of the FSA Board.
The MHS Board also has an important role in guiding and driving through the changes needed to transform the MHS into a more efficient organisation. In recognition of the importance of this role, the MHS Board is a formal sub-committee of the FSA Board (previously it was an advisory sub-committee), and includes Steve McGrath, MHS Chief Executive, and the Chief Veterinary Officer. The MHS Board is chaired by Ian Reynolds, Deputy Chair of the FSA Board.
Membership
- Ian Reynolds – MHS Board Chair (and FSA Board Deputy Chair)
- Tim Bennett – FSA Board member
- Maureen Edmondson – FSA Board member
- Celia Bennett - Independent MHS Board member
- Deryk Mead - Independent MHS Board member
- Tim Smith – FSA Chief Executive
- Steve McGrath – MHS Chief Executive
- Fred Landeg – Acting Government Chief Veterinary Officer, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)
Terms of Reference
In October 2007, the FSA Board agreed transform the MHS Board and its Terms of Reference to recognise the new responsibility of the MHS Board to guide and drive through the approved Transformed MHS plan, to develop and implement further streamlining in 2008/9 onwards and also to constitute the new MHS Board as a formal sub-committee of the FSA Board. The paper considered by the FSA Board, which includes MHS Board’s Terms of Reference is provided at the link below.
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Meat Hygiene Service Board meetings
Agendas, papers and minutes
Record of the MHS Board Stakeholder Meeting held on 18 July 2006 in Cardiff
This record is a note of the main points from the meeting. It is not a verbatim record but is intended to convey accurately the discussions at the meeting.
Record of the MHS Board Stakeholder Meeting: 22 September 2005
This record is a note of the main points from the meeting. It is not a verbatim record (except for headlines in the influencing strategy session) but is intended to convey accurately discussions at the meeting.