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Food campaigners yesterday criticised the appointment of a leading scientist to head the new food standards agency.

They said Oxford professor Sir John Krebs, who will be paid £96,000 a year for the four-day-a-week job, did not have a track record in food or consumer policy. But he insisted that he wanted the agency to be “a beacon of openness and a model for the best use buy canada goose coat online of science.”

Sir John, who is former head of the national environment research council, and whose study of badgers helped to bring about a government cull to see whether the animals best mens canada goose jacket spread TB to cattle, said he wanted to strengthen “already high standards” of food safety, to ensure that “everyone can have confidence that public health is being properly best price canada goose jacket outlet usa online store protected”.

His deputy, Suzi Leather, is a consumer campaigner whose appointment to the £30 cheap canada goose,000 a year, two-day-a-week, job was widely welcomed. The chief executive, to be paid up to £90,000 a year, will be a civil canada goose coat 1000 calorie diets servant, Geoffrey Podger.

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The European commission in Brussels meanwhile unveiled plans to restore confidence in food after the BSE crisis and scandals over dioxins and canada goose coat – victoria sewage in animal feed. But a canada goose coat 1000 bulbs new European food authority – originally billed by the president, Romano Prodi, as being modelled on the US food and drugs administration – will now have no regulatory powers.

Legislative powers will remain with the commission and national parliaments. The authority will provide scientific advice, assess all food health risks, and provide a “rapid alerts” system to speed up EU response to animal feed problems.

David Byrne, the food safety commissioner, promised a high profile chief executive to help the new body acquire “a dependable reputation”.