has also appeared in British media as an expert. He was a member of the Scottish Food Advisory Committee, part of the Food Standards Agency, an agency he recommended the government create. He was a founder member of the World Food Programme Technical Advisory Group. He is the former Vice Chair of the Broadcasting Council for Scotland, which advises the BBC. He has criticised the UK and German governments for their handling of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and the NHS for their handling of MRSA. He chaired a 2005 enquiry into a Welsh E. coli outbreak. The 2005 Outbreak of E. coli O157 in South Wales Public Inquiry report was published in March 2009. In 2003, Pennington published When Food Kills, a popular science book on the topic of BSE, E. coli and public food safety. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to microbiology and food hygiene. Personal life He married Carolyn Beattie in 1966 in Maidstone, Kent. They have two daughters. See also 1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak References External links Desert Island Discs July 2009 Guardian articles BBC Talking Point October 2000 1938 births Living people People from Hendon People educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School Alumni of King's College London British microbiologists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Academics of the University of Aberdeen Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom) Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh People from Lancaster, Lancashire