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Listen to this siteThe Advisory Committee on Research (ACR) helped the Agency develop its research and survey work.
The Committee, established in 2002, played an important part in ensuring that the Agency has a first class research portfolio and its research is firmly focused on providing the evidence the Agency needs to develop its policy aims and objectives - especially making the research relevant to the needs of consumers. It also helped to identify future areas of research the Agency needed to protect public health.
The Committee's role was to:
In February 2007, the FSA Board considered findings of a review of the role of the ACR led by the Agency's Chief Scientist. The review acknowledged the ACR had made a valuable contribution to the Agency’s management of its science and research, completing much of its initial work programme. It concluded the Agency now needed to strengthen the independent challenge it received on the broad range of science it used in developing policy. The FSA Board agreed to the recommendation that the Advisory Committee on Research should be disbanded and that its remaining research functions should be incorporated into the remit of the new overarching General Advisory Committee on Science (GACS) .
Agendas, papers and minutes of ACR meetings.
From time to time the ACR considered papers between meetings, where waiting for a meeting for the Committee's views would cause undue delay. These papers are attached here:
More information about the former Advisory Committee on Research, including more about its members.
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