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Membership - Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment

The Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) assesses and advises on mutagenic risks to humans.


Current members are:

  • Professor Gareth Jenkins, Chair (Professor of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Science, Swansea University)
  • Dr Ann Doherty (Head of Safety Innovation, Clinical Pharmacology and Safety Sciences, AstraZeneca)
  • Dr Paul Fowler (Fstox Consulting)
  • Dr George Johnson (Associate Professor, Swansea University Medical School)
  • Ms Julia Kenny (Nonclinical Safety Project Toxicologist, GlaxoSmithKline)
  • Dr Andrew Povey (Reader in Molecular Epidemiology, University of Manchester)
  • Mr Paul Rawlinson (Nufarm Ltd)
  • Dr Robert Searle-Foster (Lhasa Ltd)
  • Dr Robert Smith (Labcorp)
  • Ms Madeleine Wang (Lay Member)