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Jonathan Back is listed as Retired Senior Policy Advisor at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs based in London, England, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Jonathan Back.
Jonathan Back previously worked as Senior Policy Advisor - Farming and Primary Processing at Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs and Senior Policy Advisor - Food Supply and Industrial Strategy at Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs. Jonathan Back holds Ph.D, Food Microbiology from University Of Reading.
Able to join the dots, bringing people together to ensure an objective, evidence-based and pragmatic approach that drives results. A collaborative and flexible leader, quick to get up to speed with new roles and new teams. Wide range of subject knowledge, covering food safety, food quality, nutrition, enforcement, food supply and food security.
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Leading Defra’s horticulture and fertiliser policy teams. Working with industry to understand supply, demand and resilience issues in order to review and update current legislation and government support for these sectors.
A wide ranging role which flexed to address evolving government priorities and issues arising from EU Exit and Covid. Key responsibilities included managing a high-level government/industry forum; building strong working relationships with the retail, wholesale, and manufacturing sectors; developing a new approach to public procurement of food; and.
London, United Kingdom
Working with industry, cross-Defra and cross-Whitehall - particularly with DfE - to understand the landscape for apprenticeships, education and careers advice. Utilising this knowledge to develop Defra’s workforce and skills capability and support the agri-food chain on workforce and skills issues.
London, United Kingdom
Part of a central team responsible for driving forward and supporting implementation of Ministerial priorities. Key activities included monitoring of Defra’s manifesto commitments for the Cabinet Office; organising the Secretary of State’s Monthly Floods Resilience and Protection meetings; coordinating Ministerial briefing packs for select committee.
London, United Kingdom
Responsibility for developing and implementing systems to ensure that the FSA’s resources were deployed on the most important activities to ensure maximum public health benefit whilst meeting current and future Comprehensive Spending Review targets.
London, United Kingdom
Managing the revision of the framework European legislation on official controls (Regulation 882/2004). Taking a central co-ordination function on official controls policy for the UK, with a more focussed role on the sustainability and consistency of controls for which the FSA has responsibility.
Developing and implementing a comprehensive nutrition strategy with the catering industry. Including a national calorie labelling at point of sale policy in the UK; working with the major companies to obtain, and publish, formal commitments on nutrition related activities; implementing a strategy to improve the nutritional quality of food provided by.
Lead Commission official for the revision of the legislation on nutrition labelling. Developing and implementing a monitoring process to assess the commitments made by members of the EU Diet, Physical Activity and Health Platform. Embedding better regulation in DG SANCO.
Responsibility for various labelling and compositional legislation. Lead on EU legislation on nutrition labelling, general food labelling, health claims, the addition of vitamins and minerals to food, food supplements, infant and follow-on formula, and medical foods. Development of voluntary initiates with the industry on front of pack calorie labelling.
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Jonathan Back is listed as Retired Senior Policy Advisor at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Jonathan Back is based in London, England, United Kingdom.
Jonathan Back has worked for Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs, Food Standards Agency, and European Commission - Dg Sanco.
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Jonathan Back holds Ph.D, Food Microbiology from University Of Reading.
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