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Christine Tacon has been appointed chairman of the Red Tractor farm assurance scheme - Credit: Copyright: Archant 2015 A Norfolk-born businesswoman who became the UK's first independent supermarket regulator is now set to lead the nation's Red Tractor farm assurance scheme. Christine Tacon has been appointed chairman of Assured Food Standards (AFS) which operates Red Tractor, the largest farm and food assurance scheme in the UK covering food safety, traceability, animal welfare and environmental protection. In 2013 she became the country's first groceries code adjudicator (GCA), a role...

UK's first Groceries Code Adjudicator new chair of Red Tractor 18 December 2020 | Christine Tacon CBE has been appointed Chair of Assured Food Standards The UK’s first Groceries Code Adjudicator has been appointed the new chair of Red Tractor Assurance, replacing Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe. Christine Tacon CBE has been appointed Chair of Assured Food Standards who operate the Red Tractor Assurance scheme. The former Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) takes up the role on 1 January 2021, replacing Dame Neville-Rolfe, who stepped down following backlash over her failure to back Agriculture Bill ...

Christine Tacon has been appointed chair of Assured Food Standards, operator of the Red Tractor Assurance scheme. Tacon, who was previously Groceries Code adjudicator, will take up the role on 1 January 2021. She replaces Dame Lucy Neville-Rolfe, whose tenure in the post ended in November. Responding to the announcement, Stuart Roberts, deputy president of the National Farmers Union said: “Christine Tacon ... brings a wealth of industry experience to the Red Tractor table from across the food and farming sectors and from her work with Government in her recent ro...