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1 December 1999 Krebs gets food safety job THE first head of the new Food Standards Agency (FSA) has been confirmed as Sir John Krebs, a zoologist and expert on animal behaviour. Krebs
appointment, which was tipped by the _Financial Times_ last week, is viewed with surprise. He is seen as an outsider who has leapt over more favoured candidates. Mr Krebs, until September
the head of the Natural Environment Research Council, came to prominence as the architect of the controversial badger cull to establish a link between badgers and bovine tuberculosis. When
the FSA comes into being on 1 April, it will have an annual budget of £125 million and a staff of 500. It will have the power to order on-the-spot checks and surveillance operations on any
person or industry. Staff will also be allowed to enter premises and inspect the health records of people employed in the food industry.