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	Dr Simon Kelly I gained my degree in Chemistry from Anglia Polytechnic in 1992 and completed my PhD by publication in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia under the supervision of Paul Dennis in 2002. I became a Chartered Chemist and Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1996 and a Chartered Scientist in 2005. I have been actively involved in applying gas isotope ratio mass spectrometry to Food Authentication since 1992 when I worked for the Central Science Laboratory’s Consumer Protection Team in both Norwich and York. I participated in several European RTD projects concerned with food authenticity and origin, as well as coordinating several UK Food Standards Agency projects. Between 2001 and 2003 I worked in ENV as a PDRA for Professor Tim Jickells applying stable isotope analysis to the source apportionment of atmospheric nitrogen deposition (Kelly et al., 2005). During this time I worked with Dr Alison Bateman on an FSA funded project to investigate the application of nitrogen isotope analysis and trace element profiling to discriminate between Organic and conventional crops (Bateman et al., 2005; Bateman & Kelly, 2007; Bateman et al., 2007; Kelly & Bateman, 2009). In 2003 I joined the Institute of Food Research to work on an FSA funded project that included setting up a new Thermo Finnigan gas isotope mass spectrometry system in Fred Mellon’s Mass Spectrometry Team. Due to the closure of IFR2 in 2007 the IRMS system was moved to ENV-SIL, where I am now based as a non-stipendiary visiting fellow. Together with my colleague Dr Niusa Marigheto we are applying multi-element stable isotope analysis and trace element profiling to distinguish the geographical and production origin of various food commodities to verify labelling claims. I am actively involved in supervising and assisting several undergraduate and postgraduate students in ENV who use SIL facilities. I am an Associate Editor of the journal ‘Food Chemistry’ mainly handling manuscripts concerned with authentication, chromatography, spectroscopy and mass spectrometry and I act as a Food Authenticity consultant for IFR Extra and Food Forensics Ltd. Links: www.foodforensics.co.uk www.ifr-extra.com/ www.trace.eu.org Publications: S D Kelly, I. Parker, M. Sharman, M.J. Dennis & I. Goodall (1997) 'Assessing the Authenticity of Single Seed Vegetable Oils using Fatty Acid Stable Carbon Isotope Ratios (13C/12C)' Food Chemistry, Vol. 59, No. 2, 181-186 A M Pupin, M.J. Dennis, I. Parker, S.D. Kelly, T. Bigwood & M.C.F. Toledo (1998) 'The use of Isotopic Analyses to Determine the Authenticity of Brazilian Orange Juice (Citrus Sinesis)'. J. Ag. Food Chem., Vol 46, No. 4, 1369-1373 I G Parker, S.D. Kelly, M. Sharman, M.J. Dennis & D. Howie (1998) 'Investigation into the use of Stable Carbon Isotope Ratios (13C/12C) of Scotch Whisky Congeners to establish Brand Authenticity'. Food Chem., Vol 63, No. 3, 423-428 S D Kelly, I. Parker, M. Sharman & M.J. Dennis (1998) 'On-Line Quantitative Determination of 2H/1H Isotope Ratios in Organic and Water Samples using an Elemental Analyser coupled to an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer.' J. Mass Spec., Vol 33, No. 8, 735-738 M J Dennis, P Wilson, S D Kelly, and I Parker (1998) ‘The Use Of Pyrolytic Techniques To Estimate Site Specific Isotope Data Of Vanillin’. J Anal. App. Pyrol., Vol 47, 95-103 G Houerou, S D Kelly & M J Dennis (1999) ‘Determination of the Oxygen-18/Oxygen-16 isotope ratio of sugar, citric acid and water from single strength orange juice’. Rap. Com. Mass Spec., Vol 13, No. 13, 1257-1262 S D Kelly, K D Heaton & P Brereton (2001) 'Deuterium/Hydrogen isotope ratio measurement in water and organic samples by CF-IRMS using chromium as the reducing agent in an elemental analyser' Rap. Com. Mass Spec., Vol 15, No. 15, 1283-1286 S D Kelly (2001) ‘Development of analytical methods to determine the geographical origin of butter and cheese’ Lipid Technology, Vol 13, No. 5, 140-143 S D Kelly, M Baxter, S Chapman, C Rhodes, J Dennis and P Brereton (2002) 'The application of isotopic and elemental analysis to determine the geographical origin of premium long grain rice' European Journal of Food Research and technology, 214: 72-78 S D Kelly & C Rhodes (2002) ‘Emerging techniques in vegetable oil analysis using Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry’Grasas y aceitas, 53: No. 1, 34-44 S. D. Kelly, M. J. Scotter, R. Macarthur, L Castle and M. J. Dennis (2002) ‘Survey of stable sulfur isotope ratios (34S/32S) of sulfite and sulfate in foods’ Food Additives and Contaminants, 19, No. 11, 1003-1009 T. D. Jickells S.D. Kelly K.Biswas A. Baker, P.F. Dennis, L.J. Spokes, M. Witt, S. G. Yeatman (2003) “Isotopic Evidence for a Marine Ammonia Source”, Geophysical Research Letters,. 30 No. 7, 1374, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016728 S D Kelly, J H Lofthouse, D Anderson, C Rhodes, C Burwood and M J Dennis (2003) 'Detection of Sugar Syrups in Apple Juice by d2H‰ and d13C‰ Analysis of Hexamethylenetetramine prepared from Fructose' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 51(7); 1801-1806 A R Baker, S D Kelly, K F Biswas, M Witt & T D Jickells (2003) “Atmospheric deposition of nutrients to the Atlantic Ocean”, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (24): art. no. 2296 E Jamin, F Martin, G G Martin, A-I Blanch-Cortes, N Christoph, A Ciambiotti, S Giraudon, R Guerin, C Guillou, S D Kelly, C Lamoureaux, J Mazec, N Naulet, F Pavenello, M Retif, A Rossmann & G Versini (2004) “Determination of the 13C/12C ratio of ethanol derived from fruit juices and maple syrup by Isotope ratio mass spectrometry: Collaborative Study”, AOAC International, 87 (3) 621-631 A S Bateman, S D Kelly & T D Jickells (2005) “Nitrogen Isotope Relationships between Crops and Fertilizer: Implications for Using Nitrogen Isotope Analysis as an Indicator of Agricultural Regime” Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 53(14); 5760-5765. S D Kelly, C. Stein, T D Jickells (2005) “Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of atmospheric organic matter” Atmospheric Environment 39, 6007–6011 S D Kelly, K Heaton & J Hoogewerff (2005) “Tracing the geographical origin of food: The application of multi-element and multi-isotope analysis” Trends in Food Science and Technology, 16, 555-567 M. J. Dennis, K. Heaton, C. Rhodes, S.D. Kelly, S. Hird and P. Brereton (2006) “The evaluation of a method for the direct measurement of carbohydrates in foodstuffs” Analytica Chimica Acta, 555, 175–180 I. Horst, T. Welham, S. D. Kelly, T. Kaneko, S. Sato, S. Tabata, M. Parniske, and T. L. Wang (2007) “TILLING Mutants of Lotus japonicus Reveal that Nitrogen Assimilation and Fixation Can Occur in the Absence of Nodule-Enhanced Sucrose Synthase” Plant Physiology, 2007, 55, 2664-2670 F. Camin, L. Bontempo, K. Heinrich, F. Thomas, S.D. Kelly et al., (2007). Multi-element (H,C,N,S) stable isotope characteristics of lamb meat from different European regions, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 389 (1), 309-320 A S Bateman, S D Kelly and M Woolfe (2007) “Nitrogen isotope composition of organically and conventionally grown crops” Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry , 55, 2664-2670 A S Bateman, and S D Kelly (2007) “Fertilizer nitrogen isotope signatures” Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 43, No. 3, 237–247 A.R. Baker, K. Weston, S.D. Kelly, M. Voss, P. Streu, J.N. Cape (2007) “Dry and wet deposition of nutrients from the tropical Atlantic atmosphere: Links to primary productivity and nitrogen fixation” Deep-Sea Research I, 54, 1704–1720 K Heaton, S D Kelly, J Hoogewerff and M Woolfe (2007) “Verifying the geographical origin of beef: The application of Multi-element Isotope and Trace Element Analysis” Food Chemistry, 107, 506–515 Marina Carcea, Paul Brereton, Rachel Hsu, Simon Kelly, Nelson Marmiroli, Francesca Melini, Christos Soukoulis and Ding Wenping (2009) “Food Authenticity Assessment – Ensuring compliance with food legislation and traceability requirements” Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Food, 1, 93-100 S D Kelly & A S Bateman (2009) “Comparison of mineral concentrations in commercially grown organic and conventional crops - tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum) and lettuces (Lactuca sativa)” Food Chemistry, Online publication complete: 11-SEP-2009 DOI information: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.07.022 A. Schellenberg, S. Chmielus, C. Schlicht, F. Camin, M. Perini, L. Bontempo, K. Heinrich, S.D. Kelly, A. Rossmann, F. Thomas, E. Jamin, M. Horacek (2009) “Multielement Stable Isotope Ratios (H, C, N, S) of Honey from different European Regions” Food Chemistry, accepted with revisions. BOOK CHAPTERS S D Kelly, “Using stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry in food authentication and traceability” in “Food Authenticity and Traceability”, (Ed) Michele Lees. (2003), Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, ISBN 0-8493-1763-0, pp 156-183 A S Bateman & S D Kelly, “Possibilities and limitations of using stable nitrogen isotopes for distinguishing between organically and conventionally grown produce” in Organic HACCP, “Needs for research on quality and safety: Food Quality as a social construct, and European consumers’ conceptions of the safety and quality of organic food”, (Ed) Kirsten Brandt (in press)

Dr Simon Kelly

simon6 I gained my degree in Chemistry from Anglia Polytechnic in 1992 and completed my PhD by publication in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia under the supervision of Paul Dennis in 2002. I became a Chartered Chemist and Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1996 and a Chartered Scientist in 2005.

I have been actively involved in applying gas isotope ratio mass spectrometry to Food Authentication since 1992 when I worked for the Central Science Laboratory’s Consumer Protection Team in both Norwich and York. I participated in several European RTD projects concerned with food authenticity and origin, as well as coordinating several UK Food Standards Agency projects.

Between 2001 and 2003 I worked in ENV as a PDRA for Professor Tim Jickells applying stable isotope analysis to the source apportionment of atmospheric nitrogen deposition (Kelly et al., 2005). During this time I worked with Dr Alison Bateman on an FSA funded project to investigate the application of nitrogen isotope analysis and trace element profiling to discriminate between Organic and conventional crops (Bateman et al., 2005; Bateman & Kelly, 2007; Bateman et al., 2007; Kelly & Bateman, 2009).

In 2003 I joined the Institute of Food Research to work on an FSA funded project that included setting up a new Thermo Finnigan gas isotope mass spectrometry system in Fred Mellon’s Mass Spectrometry Team. Due to the closure of IFR2 in 2007 the IRMS system was moved to ENV-SIL, where I am now based as a non-stipendiary visiting fellow. Together with my colleague Dr Niusa Marigheto we are applying multi-element stable isotope analysis and trace element profiling to distinguish the geographical and production origin of various food commodities to verify labelling claims. I am actively involved in supervising and assisting several undergraduate and postgraduate students in ENV who use SIL facilities.

I am an Associate Editor of the journal ‘Food Chemistry’ mainly handling manuscripts concerned with authentication, chromatography, spectroscopy and mass spectrometry and I act as a Food Authenticity consultant for IFR Extra and Food Forensics Ltd.

Links:
www.foodforensics.co.uk
www.ifr-extra.com/
www.trace.eu.org

Publications:

S D Kelly, I. Parker, M. Sharman, M.J. Dennis & I. Goodall (1997) 'Assessing the Authenticity of Single Seed Vegetable Oils using Fatty Acid Stable Carbon Isotope Ratios (13C/12C)' Food Chemistry, Vol. 59, No. 2, 181-186
A M Pupin, M.J. Dennis, I. Parker, S.D. Kelly, T. Bigwood & M.C.F. Toledo (1998) 'The use of Isotopic Analyses to Determine the Authenticity of Brazilian Orange Juice (Citrus Sinesis)'. J. Ag. Food Chem., Vol 46, No. 4, 1369-1373
I G Parker, S.D. Kelly, M. Sharman, M.J. Dennis & D. Howie (1998) 'Investigation into the use of Stable Carbon Isotope Ratios (13C/12C) of Scotch Whisky Congeners to establish Brand Authenticity'. Food Chem., Vol 63, No. 3, 423-428
S D Kelly, I. Parker, M. Sharman & M.J. Dennis (1998) 'On-Line Quantitative Determination of 2H/1H Isotope Ratios in Organic and Water Samples using an Elemental Analyser coupled to an Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer.' J. Mass Spec., Vol 33, No. 8, 735-738
M J Dennis, P Wilson, S D Kelly, and I Parker (1998) ‘The Use Of Pyrolytic Techniques To Estimate Site Specific Isotope Data Of Vanillin’. J Anal. App. Pyrol., Vol 47, 95-103
G Houerou, S D Kelly & M J Dennis (1999) ‘Determination of the Oxygen-18/Oxygen-16 isotope ratio of sugar, citric acid and water from single strength orange juice’. Rap. Com. Mass Spec., Vol 13, No. 13, 1257-1262
S D Kelly, K D Heaton & P Brereton (2001) 'Deuterium/Hydrogen isotope ratio measurement in water and organic samples by CF-IRMS using chromium as the reducing agent in an elemental analyser' Rap. Com. Mass Spec., Vol 15, No. 15, 1283-1286
S D Kelly (2001) ‘Development of analytical methods to determine the geographical origin of butter and cheese’ Lipid Technology, Vol 13, No. 5, 140-143
S D Kelly, M Baxter, S Chapman, C Rhodes, J Dennis and P Brereton (2002) 'The application of isotopic and elemental analysis to determine the geographical origin of premium long grain rice' European Journal of Food Research and technology, 214: 72-78
S D Kelly & C Rhodes (2002) ‘Emerging techniques in vegetable oil analysis using Stable Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry’Grasas y aceitas, 53: No. 1, 34-44
S. D. Kelly, M. J. Scotter, R. Macarthur, L Castle and M. J. Dennis (2002) ‘Survey of stable sulfur isotope ratios (34S/32S) of sulfite and sulfate in foods’ Food Additives and Contaminants, 19, No. 11, 1003-1009
T. D. Jickells S.D. Kelly K.Biswas A. Baker, P.F. Dennis, L.J. Spokes, M. Witt, S. G. Yeatman (2003) “Isotopic Evidence for a Marine Ammonia Source”, Geophysical Research Letters,. 30 No. 7, 1374, doi: 10.1029/2002GL016728
S D Kelly, J H Lofthouse, D Anderson, C Rhodes, C Burwood and M J Dennis (2003) 'Detection of Sugar Syrups in Apple Juice by d2H‰ and d13C‰ Analysis of Hexamethylenetetramine prepared from Fructose' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 51(7); 1801-1806
A R Baker, S D Kelly, K F Biswas, M Witt & T D Jickells (2003) “Atmospheric deposition of nutrients to the Atlantic Ocean”, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (24): art. no. 2296
E Jamin, F Martin, G G Martin, A-I Blanch-Cortes, N Christoph, A Ciambiotti, S Giraudon, R Guerin, C Guillou, S D Kelly, C Lamoureaux, J Mazec, N Naulet, F Pavenello, M Retif, A Rossmann & G Versini (2004) “Determination of the 13C/12C ratio of ethanol derived from fruit juices and maple syrup by Isotope ratio mass spectrometry: Collaborative Study”, AOAC International, 87 (3) 621-631
A S Bateman, S D Kelly & T D Jickells (2005) “Nitrogen Isotope Relationships between Crops and Fertilizer: Implications for Using Nitrogen Isotope Analysis as an Indicator of Agricultural Regime” Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 53(14); 5760-5765.
S D Kelly, C. Stein, T D Jickells (2005) “Carbon and nitrogen isotopic analysis of atmospheric organic matter” Atmospheric Environment 39, 6007–6011
S D Kelly, K Heaton & J Hoogewerff (2005) “Tracing the geographical origin of food: The application of multi-element and multi-isotope analysis” Trends in Food Science and Technology, 16, 555-567
M. J. Dennis, K. Heaton, C. Rhodes, S.D. Kelly, S. Hird and P. Brereton (2006) “The evaluation of a method for the direct measurement of carbohydrates in foodstuffs” Analytica Chimica Acta, 555, 175–180
I. Horst, T. Welham, S. D. Kelly, T. Kaneko, S. Sato, S. Tabata, M. Parniske, and T. L. Wang (2007) “TILLING Mutants of Lotus japonicus Reveal that Nitrogen Assimilation and Fixation Can Occur in the Absence of Nodule-Enhanced Sucrose Synthase” Plant Physiology, 2007, 55, 2664-2670
F. Camin, L. Bontempo, K. Heinrich, F. Thomas, S.D. Kelly et al., (2007). Multi-element (H,C,N,S) stable isotope characteristics of lamb meat from different European regions, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 389 (1), 309-320
A S Bateman, S D Kelly and M Woolfe (2007) “Nitrogen isotope composition of organically and conventionally grown crops” Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry , 55, 2664-2670
A S Bateman, and S D Kelly (2007) “Fertilizer nitrogen isotope signatures” Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, 43, No. 3, 237–247
A.R. Baker, K. Weston, S.D. Kelly, M. Voss, P. Streu, J.N. Cape (2007) “Dry and wet deposition of nutrients from the tropical Atlantic atmosphere: Links to primary productivity and nitrogen fixation” Deep-Sea Research I, 54, 1704–1720
K Heaton, S D Kelly, J Hoogewerff and M Woolfe (2007) “Verifying the geographical origin of beef: The application of Multi-element Isotope and Trace Element Analysis” Food Chemistry, 107, 506–515
Marina Carcea, Paul Brereton, Rachel Hsu, Simon Kelly, Nelson Marmiroli, Francesca Melini, Christos Soukoulis and Ding Wenping (2009) “Food Authenticity Assessment – Ensuring compliance with food legislation and traceability requirements” Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops & Food, 1, 93-100
S D Kelly & A S Bateman (2009) “Comparison of mineral concentrations in commercially grown organic and conventional crops - tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum) and lettuces (Lactuca sativa)” Food Chemistry, Online publication complete: 11-SEP-2009 DOI information: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.07.022
A. Schellenberg, S. Chmielus, C. Schlicht, F. Camin, M. Perini, L. Bontempo, K. Heinrich, S.D. Kelly, A. Rossmann, F. Thomas, E. Jamin, M. Horacek (2009) “Multielement Stable Isotope Ratios (H, C, N, S) of Honey from different European Regions” Food Chemistry, accepted with revisions.

BOOK CHAPTERS

S D Kelly, “Using stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry in food authentication and traceability” in “Food Authenticity and Traceability”, (Ed) Michele Lees. (2003), Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge, UK, ISBN 0-8493-1763-0, pp 156-183
A S Bateman & S D Kelly, “Possibilities and limitations of using stable nitrogen isotopes for distinguishing between organically and conventionally grown produce” in Organic HACCP, “Needs for research on quality and safety: Food Quality as a social construct, and European consumers’ conceptions of the safety and quality of organic food”, (Ed) Kirsten Brandt (in press)