SEFARI Fellowship with Food Standards Scotland explores the lifestyle factors of the older population and the potential association with foodborne disease in Scotland

Food Standards Scotland’s (FSS) vision is to create a safe, healthy, and sustainable food environment that protects the health and well-being of people in Scotland. To achieve this, FSS have key strategies for reducing illness from foodborne pathogens (commonly referred to as food poisoning), this includes the distribution of food safety information to all consumers.

Dr Ellen W. Evans

Dr Ellen Evans is a Reader in Food Safety Behaviour at the ZERO2FIVE Food Industry Centre in the UK. As a qualified professional chef, and after completing a PhD focusing on the food safety risks associated with listeriosis among older adults at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Dr Evans has conducted numerous cognitive and behavioural food safety research projects.

Ellen Evans

ZERO2FIVE Food Industry Centre Food & Drink Research Unit,

Cardiff School of Sport and Health Sciences,

Cardiff Metropolitan University,

Western Avenue,

Cardiff,

CF5 2YB.

Dr Luiza Toma

Luiza is an applied economist based at SRUC and specialises in agri-environmental economics. Her main research interests are behavioural economics applied to food waste and recylcing, land and water use, climate change, consumption of higher welfare and healthy food products, uptake of animal disease control technologies; economic modelling of the linkages between trade, animal health and welfare, and the environment; and analysis of environmental efficiency of knowledge and innovation transfer.

Luiza Toma

Scotland’s Rural College
Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings
West Mains Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3JG