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Marc has worked as a statistical researcher at the Universities of Nottingham and Sheffield, and the US National Institute of Statistical Sciences. He has expertise in the analysis of computer simulation models and has developed specialist tools and software for sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis and calibration of complex models.
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Genomics and epidemiology of a bacterial disease
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25+
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PhD
Marc has worked as statistician and risk analyst at Fera since 2006, mainly on EU projects for exposure to mixtures of pesticides from dietary residues and crop spraying, occupational exposures from pesticide exposures, risk-benefit analysis and Total Diet Studies. He has created risk modelling software for residents and bystanders, and for dietary risk assessment, which include statistical analysis of pesticide usage data and dietary consumption surveys. Prior to joining Fera, Marc worked as a statistical researcher at the Universities of Nottingham and Sheffield, and the US National Institute of Statistical Sciences. He has expertise in the analysis of computer simulation models and has developed specialist tools and software for sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis and calibration of complex models. Applications have included engineering, carbon dynamics, hydrology, ecology, food safety and atmospheric dispersion.
Marc has contributed to expert working groups for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI – Europe). He has contributed to 3 EFSA opinions including guidance on probabilistic modelling for dietary exposure assessments. He has published 56 peer-reviewed papers and 4 book chapters, with around 8500 citations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and has served on the Environmental Statistics Section of the RSS.
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Latest Papers and Articles
Kennedy, M. C. Exposure assessment: Modelling approaches including probabilistic methods, uncertainty analysis and aggregate exposure from multiple sources. In Present Knowledge in Food Safety. Knowles, M. E., Anelich, L. E., Boobis, A. R. and Popping, B. (eds.). 2023. Elsevier.
Turner, J.A., Chantry, T., Taylor, M.C. and Kennedy, M.C. (2021). Changes in agronomic practices and incidence and severity of diseases in winter wheat in England and Wales between 1999 and 2019. Plant Pathology, 70(8), 1759-1778. http://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13433
Crépet, A., Luong, T.M., Baines, J., Boon, P.E., Ennis, J., Jung, H., Kennedy, M.C., Massarelli, I., Miller, D., Nako, S., Reuss, R., Yoon, H.J. and Verger, P. (2021). An international probabilistic risk assessment of acute dietary exposure to pesticide residues in relation to codex maximum residue limits for pesticides in food. Food Control, 121, 107563. Available online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107563
Sprong, C., Crépet, A., Metruccio, F., Blaznik, U., Anagnosopoulos, C., Christodoulou, D.L., Jensen, B.H., Kennedy, M.C., Paradell, N.G., Rehurkova, I., Ruprich, J., te Bieseek, J.D., Vanacker, M., Moretto, A. and van Klaveren, J.D. (2020). Cumulating dietary risk assessment overarching different regulatory silos using a margin of exposure approach: A case study with three chemical silos. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 142 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2020.111416
Kennedy, M.C., Hart, A.D.M., Kruisselbrink, J.W., van Lenthe, M.S., de Boer, W.J., van der Voet, H., Rorije, E., Sprong, C and van Klaveren, J.D. (2020). A retain and refine approach to cumulative risk assessment. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 138, 111223. Available online https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2020.111223
van der Voet, H., Kruisselbrink, J.W., de Boer, W.J., van Lenthe, M.S., van den Heuvel, J.J.B. (Hans), Crépet, A., Kennedy, M.C., Zilliacus, J., Beronius, A., Tebby, C., Brochot, C., Luckert, C., Lampen, A., Rorije, E., Sprong, C. and van Klaveren, J.D. (2020). The MCRA toolbox of models and data to support chemical mixture risk assessment. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 138, 111185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2020.111185
Kennedy, M.C., Garthwaite, D. G., de Boer, W.J. and Kruisselbrink, J.W. (2018). Modelling aggregate exposure to pesticides from dietary and crop spray sources in UK residents. Submitted to Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
Butler Ellis, M.C., Kennedy, M.C., Kuester, C., Alanis, R. and Tuck, C. (2018). Improvements in modelling bystander and resident exposure to pesticide spray drift: Investigations into new approaches for characterizing the ‘collection efficiency’ of the human body. Annals of Work Exposures and Health. 62:622-632.
Butler Ellis, M. C., Kennedy, M. C., Alanis, R. J., Tuck, C. R. and Kuester, C. J. (2018). Human exposure to spray drift: investigations into modelling the spray exposure of residents and bystanders and its variability. Aspects of Applied Biology, 137, 2018.
Crépet, A., Vanacker, M., Sprong, C., de Boer, W., Blaznik, U., Kennedy, M. C., et al (2018). Selecting mixtures on the basis of dietary exposure and hazard data: application to pesticide exposure in the European population in relation to steatosis. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2018.12.002
MC Butler Ellis, JC van de Zande, F van den Berg, MC Kennedy, et al (2017). The BROWSE model for predicting exposures of residents and bystanders to agricultural use of plant protection products: An overview. Biosystems Engineering, 154, 92-104.
Butler Ellis, M.C., van den Berg, F., van de Zande, J.C., Kennedy, M.C., et al (2017). The BROWSE model for predicting exposures of residents and bystanders to agricultural use of pesticides: Comparison with experimental data and other exposure models. Biosystems Engineering, 154, 122-136.
Events past and future
7th International Akademie Fresenius Conference: Worker, Operator, Bystander and Resident Exposure and Risk Assessment, 13th December 2022: Seed Treatment Operator Exposure (Seedtropex) – update from the taskforce.
British Toxicology Society, 26th October 2022: Probabilistic exposure modelling for pesticide non-dietary assessment. Webinar.
Government Chemist annual Conference 2021: “Safe food for tomorrow’s world” (online). Microbiome for protected status.
3rd International Akademie Fresenius MIXTOX Conference, 29-30 October 2019, Cologne, Germany. Modelling exposure to pesticide mixtures from dietary and crop spray sources in UK residents, using the EuroMix tool.
Euromix Stakeholder Workshop (March 2019, Brussels). Applications of the Euromix toolbox for improving exposure assessment of mixtures: Aggregated exposure assessment.
Eurotox 2018, Brussels, Belgium. Case-study: Combining dietary and non-dietary pesticide exposure. Part of Continuing Education Course: Exposure, hazard and risk assessment of mixtures of pesticides/chemicals in food using the tools developed in the EuroMix project.
ISES 2016 (International Society of Exposure Science), Utrecht, Netherlands. Aggregate exposure to pesticides from dietary and non-dietary exposure: A UK case study for residents, bystanders and spray operators..
Marc and their team work with customers to deliver the following services within Fera...
Insect Monitoring
Providing you with the information you need to make pest control decisions.
Soil Health Unit
Health tests, organism monitoring and metal detection for your soil, amongst other services
Grower support tools
Cutting edge software to help growers optimise their crop yield and health
Writing
Latest Papers and Articles
Kennedy, M. C. Exposure assessment: Modelling approaches including probabilistic methods, uncertainty analysis and aggregate exposure from multiple sources. In Present Knowledge in Food Safety. Knowles, M. E., Anelich, L. E., Boobis, A. R. and Popping, B. (eds.). 2023. Elsevier.
Turner, J.A., Chantry, T., Taylor, M.C. and Kennedy, M.C. (2021). Changes in agronomic practices and incidence and severity of diseases in winter wheat in England and Wales between 1999 and 2019. Plant Pathology, 70(8), 1759-1778. http://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13433
Crépet, A., Luong, T.M., Baines, J., Boon, P.E., Ennis, J., Jung, H., Kennedy, M.C., Massarelli, I., Miller, D., Nako, S., Reuss, R., Yoon, H.J. and Verger, P. (2021). An international probabilistic risk assessment of acute dietary exposure to pesticide residues in relation to codex maximum residue limits for pesticides in food. Food Control, 121, 107563. Available online. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107563
Sprong, C., Crépet, A., Metruccio, F., Blaznik, U., Anagnosopoulos, C., Christodoulou, D.L., Jensen, B.H., Kennedy, M.C., Paradell, N.G., Rehurkova, I., Ruprich, J., te Bieseek, J.D., Vanacker, M., Moretto, A. and van Klaveren, J.D. (2020). Cumulating dietary risk assessment overarching different regulatory silos using a margin of exposure approach: A case study with three chemical silos. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 142 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2020.111416
Kennedy, M.C., Hart, A.D.M., Kruisselbrink, J.W., van Lenthe, M.S., de Boer, W.J., van der Voet, H., Rorije, E., Sprong, C and van Klaveren, J.D. (2020). A retain and refine approach to cumulative risk assessment. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 138, 111223. Available online https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2020.111223
van der Voet, H., Kruisselbrink, J.W., de Boer, W.J., van Lenthe, M.S., van den Heuvel, J.J.B. (Hans), Crépet, A., Kennedy, M.C., Zilliacus, J., Beronius, A., Tebby, C., Brochot, C., Luckert, C., Lampen, A., Rorije, E., Sprong, C. and van Klaveren, J.D. (2020). The MCRA toolbox of models and data to support chemical mixture risk assessment. Food and Chemical Toxicology, 138, 111185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2020.111185
Kennedy, M.C., Garthwaite, D. G., de Boer, W.J. and Kruisselbrink, J.W. (2018). Modelling aggregate exposure to pesticides from dietary and crop spray sources in UK residents. Submitted to Environmental Science and Pollution Research.
Butler Ellis, M.C., Kennedy, M.C., Kuester, C., Alanis, R. and Tuck, C. (2018). Improvements in modelling bystander and resident exposure to pesticide spray drift: Investigations into new approaches for characterizing the ‘collection efficiency’ of the human body. Annals of Work Exposures and Health. 62:622-632.
Butler Ellis, M. C., Kennedy, M. C., Alanis, R. J., Tuck, C. R. and Kuester, C. J. (2018). Human exposure to spray drift: investigations into modelling the spray exposure of residents and bystanders and its variability. Aspects of Applied Biology, 137, 2018.
Crépet, A., Vanacker, M., Sprong, C., de Boer, W., Blaznik, U., Kennedy, M. C., et al (2018). Selecting mixtures on the basis of dietary exposure and hazard data: application to pesticide exposure in the European population in relation to steatosis. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2018.12.002
MC Butler Ellis, JC van de Zande, F van den Berg, MC Kennedy, et al (2017). The BROWSE model for predicting exposures of residents and bystanders to agricultural use of plant protection products: An overview. Biosystems Engineering, 154, 92-104.
Butler Ellis, M.C., van den Berg, F., van de Zande, J.C., Kennedy, M.C., et al (2017). The BROWSE model for predicting exposures of residents and bystanders to agricultural use of pesticides: Comparison with experimental data and other exposure models. Biosystems Engineering, 154, 122-136.
Attending or speaking at
Events past and future
7th International Akademie Fresenius Conference: Worker, Operator, Bystander and Resident Exposure and Risk Assessment, 13th December 2022: Seed Treatment Operator Exposure (Seedtropex) – update from the taskforce.
British Toxicology Society, 26th October 2022: Probabilistic exposure modelling for pesticide non-dietary assessment. Webinar.
Government Chemist annual Conference 2021: “Safe food for tomorrow’s world” (online). Microbiome for protected status.
3rd International Akademie Fresenius MIXTOX Conference, 29-30 October 2019, Cologne, Germany. Modelling exposure to pesticide mixtures from dietary and crop spray sources in UK residents, using the EuroMix tool.
Euromix Stakeholder Workshop (March 2019, Brussels). Applications of the Euromix toolbox for improving exposure assessment of mixtures: Aggregated exposure assessment.
Eurotox 2018, Brussels, Belgium. Case-study: Combining dietary and non-dietary pesticide exposure. Part of Continuing Education Course: Exposure, hazard and risk assessment of mixtures of pesticides/chemicals in food using the tools developed in the EuroMix project.
ISES 2016 (International Society of Exposure Science), Utrecht, Netherlands. Aggregate exposure to pesticides from dietary and non-dietary exposure: A UK case study for residents, bystanders and spray operators..
Services
Marc and their team work with customers to deliver the following services within Fera...
Insect Monitoring
Providing you with the information you need to make pest control decisions.
Soil Health Unit
Health tests, organism monitoring and metal detection for your soil, amongst other services
Grower support tools
Cutting edge software to help growers optimise their crop yield and health
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