BIOGRAPHY

In 1981 Jon Ratcliff, an honours graduate from Reading University, joined national UK feed company J Bibby Agriculture as a poultry nutritionist. During his fifteen years with Bibby, and latterly ABN, he undertook various management responsibilities culminating in his appointment as General Manager in 1990 and Commercial Manager in 1994, with responsibility for five feed mills and a combined annual output of 400k tonnes.

In 1996 he left to set up his own consultancy business, Food & Agriculture Consultancy Services (F.A.C.S. Ltd). As well as providing a core nutritional, formulation and purchasing function for pig and poultry operations in the UK and overseas, F.A.C.S. specialises in the implementation of HACCP based food safety programmes from farm through to slaughter.

During the past ten years, F.A.C.S has been consulting for the UK's largest supermarket, Tesco, on matters relating to animal feed and animal feed production. Issues addressed include the removal of antibiotic growth promoters and animal by-products, residue control, audit procedures for the supply of raw materials and animal feeds, and the implementation of HACCP risk assessment within the animal feed and raw material & additive supply industries.

F.A.C.S. Ltd has become a recognised authority on food safety providing a global HACCP based Food Safety Consultancy with an established client base in Europe, S E Asia and South America. In 2004, F.A.C.S. Ltd became an approved service supplier for CMi Certification and established an office in Thailand to provide an extensive certification service for S East Asia.