Peter Aggett

Clinician and Independent Consultant Nutrition, Diet and Health and Food Safety and Regulation, United Kingdom.

Expertise

Peter Aggett became interested in the metabolism of trace elements in human health and disease including Inborn Errors of Metabolism when training as a Paediatrician. After research at the Institute of Child Health at London University, he worked at the University of Aberdeen and Rowett Research Institute as a Senior Research Fellow, The Institute of Food Research as Head of Department and Assistant Director, and as Head of the Lancashire School of Postgraduate Medicine and Health, which he left in 2008.

He currently has an Honorary Chair in the School of Medicine and Health at Lancaster University. He is Vice Chair of the UK Government Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition and is on its Subgroup on Maternal and Child Nutrition, having been on the UK Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy. He has also been Vice Chair of the UK Committee on Toxicity, and a member of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes, and is or has been involved with other Ministerial, Food Standards Agency, Research Councils, Department of Health and cross agency panels on practice, policy and research development and integrity in areas related to nutrient reference values, risk assessment, food safety including adverse reactions and toxicology, and overall FSA science strategy.

He has worked similarly for the European Commission (Scientific Committee on Food, Research Panels), WHO, IAEA and FAO expert groups and was actively engaged in leading the EU Concerted Actions that addressed Functional Food Science (FUFOSE), and the Assessment of Scientific Support for Claims (PASSCLAIM) on foods.

Recent publication

Aggett PJ, Population reference intakes and micronutrient bioavailability: a European perspective.

Am J Clin Nutr. 2010;91(5):1433S-1437S.

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