| Current Position at CWA
Frazer Imrie is a private consultant
specialising in forensic aspects of damage to food. He works through his company,
Imrie Consulting Ltd.
Frazer Imrie is a Director of CWA Consultants International Ltd., where he is Head of the
Food Department, providing a comprehensive service in the investigation of incidents,
claims assessment and expert advice for litigation and loss prevention. He has an
international reputation in food technology with particular reference to
temperature-controlled storage and transport of food and in the bulk handling and shipment
of dry commodities like cereals and oilseeds.
He has more than 25 years of experience in the UK food industry where he reached a
position at senior board level in a major international food company. For the past
20 years he has been a food consultant.
Frazer is an expert in forensic biology and specialises in preparing technical cases for
litigation. He lectures regularly to law firms and insurance companies around the
world on food cargoes. He has also worked extensively for various international
agencies such as FAO, WHO and UNESCO. He is the author of some 30 research papers
and chapters in three books. A detailed list of these is available on request.
Frazer is currently a member of several UK consumer evaluation panels.
Specific
Expertise and Experience at CWA
This is not intended to be an exhaustive list;
its purpose is to illustrate the broad scope of Mr Imrie’s expertise and experience.
Bulk & Bagged Commodities
Technical and Market investigation of damage to: wheat, rice, maize, barley, soya beans,
oilseeds residues, raw & refined sugar
Refrigerated Produce
Technical and Market investigation of damage to: bananas, pineapples, citrus, apples,
pears, kiwi fruit, onions, garlic, potatoes, iceberg lettuce
Frozen Food
Technical and Market investigation of damage to: fish, meat, poultry, prawns, squid, ice
cream
Animal Feed
Investigation of damage to bulk animal feed ingredients: feed beans, molasses, alfalfa
pellets, urea/molasses pellets, soybean derivatives pellets
Market Evaluation
Evaluation of the structure of the market, pricing (both national and international) and
general market aspects of the following:
- international banana markets
- the EU market for garlic
- the structure and costs of the UK market for
Egyptian potatoes
- the value of New Zealand apples in Europe
- numerous investigations into the pricing
structure of markets for rice, wheat, sugar and animal feeds in various parts of the world
- supermarket attitudes to frozen burgers in
relation to packing and presentation
Environmental Impact
Studies on the effects of pollutants on food shipments
The impact of power station pollutants on commercial field crops
Summary of Previous
Employment
| 1980 to date |
Food Consultant
During his industrial career Frazer worked for some time on the evaluation of
products for animal feed production. Initially, this was on maize-based ingredients,
but later included materials like rice, barley, wheat and waste agricultural products like
citrus waste, sugar cane bagasse and molasses.
For the last 22 years, Frazer has been a food consultant.
His experience in this role has also been very broadly based. During his career,
Frazer has lived and worked in a number of overseas countries, notably South Africa,
Nigeria, Thailand and Hong Kong.
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| 1983-1991 |
Sempernova plc, Chairman and Chief Executive
Founder and main shareholder of a small public company dedicated to exploiting
proprietary technology using sucrose esters. In particular manufacture and sale of
non-toxic fruit and vegetable coatings.Frazer specialised in the marketing and sales function within the
company. This involved close liaison with most of the major producers of fresh fruit and
vegetables around the world, giving Frazer a unique knowledge of a wide range of fresh
food production in both developed and developing countries. |
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| 1968-1982 |
Tate and Lyle plc
Divisional Managing Director, New Ventures: Responsible for the
commercial development of new ventures arising from internal research or from investment.
As such had profit responsibility for ventures in meat technology, sugar chemicals, fruit
and vegetables coating (joint venture with a major international fruit company).Marketing Director, Talres Development Ltd:
Responsible for the marketing of food chemicals including fruit coatings.
Group Development Manager: Responsible for
the commercial development of new products and processes related to foods.
Head of Microbiology Dept, Central Research
Laboratories: Headed research programmes involving new uses for sugar involving biological
transformations. Group quality control of products and processes. |
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| 1959-1968 |
Manbre and Garton Ltd
Group Director of Research: Responsible for research programme for a small
starch and sugar group.Chief
Quality Control Manager: Responsible for all quality control and technical service for
four factories in group. As such was a member of the Sales Department and gained extensive
experience of sales and marketing.
Chief Chemist: Responsible for all quality
control at a sugar refinery. Also responsible for customer liaison alongside sales
personnel. |
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