Richard A. Sprenger
Managing Director - Highfield.co.uk Ltd

Richard Sprenger joined Highfield.co.uk Ltd as Managing Director in 1999 following a successful career in local government. He has specialized in food safety since qualifying as an environmental health officer in 1973. He became director of a multidisciplinary department in a large metropolitan authority at the age of 38.

Richard was the first environmental health officer appointed as a member of the Government Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food. He was a LACORS advisor for a considerable number of years and Chair of the LACORS Food Poisoning Working Group.

Richard has worked with several universities as an external examiner and as an independent reviewer with the QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority). He was responsible for the organization and development of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health Basic and Advanced Food Hygiene courses and has written several internationally recognized books including "Hygiene for Management", "Supervising Food Safety (Level 3)", "Foundation HACCP" and "The Food Safety Handbook".

He is responsible for the technical content of Foundation Food Safety, our award winning e-learning programme, which has been based on the best selling "Food Safety Handbook" and also our Intermediate Food Safety e-learning CD-ROM.
Richard was the inaugural chairman of the Society of Food Hygiene Technology Yorkshire and Humberside Centre and is currently a Director of SOFHT. He has been awarded fellowships by both the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health and by the Society of Food Hygiene Technology.

He has also advised national blue chip companies on the implementation of HACCP and the development of positive food safety cultures.
As could be expected, Richard has presented many papers at prestigious conferences worldwide. He has also assisted in the training of Enforcement Officers in the UK, Cyprus, Dubai, Mauritius and the Seychelles.