Stephen Harris

With 30 years in chemistry and a passion for quality and cost reduction Stephen Mark Harris (aka Harry) started out in the food business in 1989, joining Lawlabs from Hoechst UK Ltd. In 1990 he founded Chemcheck Analytical Services Ltd which evolved into ACS Food Analysis Ltd and focused on process driven techniques in order to supply high quality but low cost base analysis. In 1998 a large testing house acquired ACS. Harry went on to build up their business to 6 sites in the UK and 1 in Southern Ireland becoming the largest most cost effective laboratory network in the UK and establishing good quality low priced testing, changing the marketplace forever. High quality process driven large factory labs have replaced the traditional small old fashioned high priced acedemic based labs. In 2005 he became focused on their European operations in France, Holland and Sweden before leaving in 2006. He moved on to join FALabs as CEO. He is well known in the industry for being able 'to make things happen' and was glad to be back providing a quality service where the customer comes first. "It's a pleasure to be working with a team of people that actually know and understand food legislation, manufacturing production processes and can apply their knowledge with full effect to the benefit of the customer rather than just churning samples to meet budget. Volume driven, high quality, low cost base factory labs are the only way forward, utilizing the latest technology to provide the service and prices industry needs and demands ".

Steve Watt

Sales and Marketing Director A graduate microbiologist and business manager with over 20 years experience, Steve is probably the best known Sales person in the industry with a track record of providing cost effective solutions for all sizes of business. Delivering significant savings to customers and developing volume based sales Steve has been instrumental in developing and providing the UK market the freedom to increase testing to the benefit of the consumer. Having worked for and headed up two of the UK’s largest Food testing organizations “I felt I needed the freedom to do what was right for the client and to be able to put everything back into the business". Steve spends the majority of his time working with customers, helping them to improve their operations and develop their due diligence systems. He is also pivotal in setting up due diligence systems and store monitoring procedures for one of the UK's largest retailers as well as the now infamous 'Testing in a Box' system allowing for anyone to submit environmental and food samples for analysis.

Andrea Myatt

Site and General Manager for the Stoke lab. Andrea ran several UKAS accredited Microbiology Labs in Shrewsbury, Dublin, Newton Abbot and Spalding and was a leader in her field. With over 15 years experience she is well known in the industry and has an excellent reputation for supporting and helping clients and for making sure the Laboratory delivers on time. “ Like the rest of the team I was frustrated by not being able to focus on the customer and the service and decided that the only way to provide the service I felt the customers needed was to set up on our own.” Andrea also heads up the FAL M&S quality management system.

Victoria Kusnierz

Technical Manager of Microbiology, Graduated from the University of Wales Aberystwyth in 1995 where she gained experience working for several companies before joining Dairy Crest. She eventually became Group Microbiologist for Dairy Crest, a company with 14 sites across the UK producing a wide variety of Dairy products, ingredients and value-added products before joining FAL in the summer of 2008.

Lyn Richards

Operations Director, Microbiology. Lyn graduated from University in 1996 and immediately started her career with the Birkenhead site of CPA laboratories, which was later acquired by Eurofins Laboratories Ltd. Her time within the contract laboratory industry has given her considerable experience with most matrix types currently produced in the UK and the accreditation/approval requirements of their manufacturers. Her role lasted 13 years and included working at several UK sites in a quality, operational and technical capacity. She is well known to several existing Falabs clients and her joining marks the start of the plans of Falabs to move into the number one position in the UK by 2013 in routine food testing.

Chris Hills

Director of Nutritional Chemistry. Again with over 31 years of experience as an analytical chemist working in the food sector Chris is peerless in his knowledge of food analysis. Former Technical Director and Head of Food Chemistry and LIMS development in Europe's largest food testing laboratory and ex lecturer at Nottingham Trent University Chris has worked for three Food testing Laboratories before setting up Hemington consultants , writing and supporting LIMS systems worldwide and providing expert witness evidence in court. Chris was part of the initial set up team before taking a back seat in 2009. Chris now acts as a consultant to FAL, spending a lot of his time shooting, fishing and politics where he was recently elected as chairman of his local council.

James Cressy

was one of the founding members of FAL and became Director of I.T. in 2008 heading up the IT development and implementation team. James has had many years of experience configuring Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), writing web based systems for other food testing companies before joining FAL. James is currently writing, developing and upgrading NetPortal and writing improved laboratory electronic quality management systems(LQMS) for FAL. He also spends time helping clients streamline and improving their own systems to save them costs as well as an involvement in his own separate I.T. business writing laboratory solutions.