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Our History...
On
the 14th of March 1978 under the guiding hands of P.D.Maunsell,
(Zimmerman & Hobbs) ,Jack Paines, (Norda International Ltd.), G. F. Rocke,
(Wilson & Mansfield Ltd.), E. R. Harper (Givaudan & Co. Ltd.) A. H. Samuelson (P.Samuelson
& Co. Ltd..),
D.F.Cox (F.D.Copeland & Sons Ltd.),L.E. Ballam (Bush Boake
Allen Ltd.), F. K. Saville (White Stevenson Ltd.), and G B. Cooper (Proprietary
Perfumes Ltd.), the British Essential Oil Association was incorporated having
been formed by the above named group
on 24th January 1978 and had as its first secretary Paddy Gray. The
Association operated from 69 Cannon
Street
until 1989 during which time many respected names associated with the industry
were instrumental in stabilising the BEOA and getting it
recognised as an Association.
Those mentioned above together with people like Ron Neal, Geoff Sutton,
John
Buck, John Carr, F. Drought, E .
Storey R. Sutton, A. Pittman , R. Hyde,
and more recently Hugo Bovill, Peter Bellingham, Reg Wells,
Ray Stapleton, Roy Powell, G. Frost, David Moyler, John
Austin, Terry Allin, Paul
Sherrington, Mike Clark, Roy Smith, Roger Dyer, Terry Lineham,
Mike Richards, Martin Gill, Steve Smith, Tony Payne, Ian
Allwork, Philippe Caumont, Peter Hitchen, Graham Page, Ken
Goodger, Jason Wilson and Julie Richards, who became the first woman elected to
the committee. She has since been joined by Debbie Mockford. All have
contributed to, and reinforced, the original concept and continue to give their
time and expertise freely to the Association.
The Association was formed originally to be a forum and
buffer between the industry and government both in the
UK and in
Brussels. Its
aim has been to maintain and improve general standards of, and protect the
commercial and economic interests of, persons who are involved in the Essential
Oils Industry.
From the beginning the Association has sought to foster
closer contact between member companies. Whilst the Annual General Meeting, in
recent years held at the RAC club in London, continues to be the most widely
supported event of our year increasingly social events including quiz, film and
lecture evenings, and more recently a formal Dinner Dance have engendered the
Association’s image..
In recent years the BEOA has increasingly sought closer
liaison with other industry Associations including BFA, BEMA and
EFFA. The early
groundwork done by Mr. Hugo Bovill and Mr. David
Moyler finally bore fruit when the “27 Club” was introduced to
allow members of BEOA, who were not members of those Associations, to access
information emanating from them. As
a result the Association now has a better overview of the industry and has taken
on the might of Europe (and lost) with regards
to the anti-dumping campaign against Chinese Coumarin. In doing so however we
have gained valuable experience for the future.
The Association was one of the founder members of the
European Federation for Essential Oils (EFEO)
and has a permanent seat on the Board. contributing to its valuable work towards
the Industry on a European basis whilst aware of international ramifications and
working hopefully towards solutions on European Legislation with latterly a
special project on REACH as well as supporting the stand that Essential Oils are
a single ingredient and should not be classed as a molecule and thereby subject
to extra legislation.
The Association’s Technical Committee has become an
important factor in the BEOA’s progress of recent years. Its outstanding work in
publishing an annual Technical Handbook which contains a fully reviewed and
revised CHIP list and the newly implemented R65 data together with CAS, EOSA and
EINECS numbers is recognised throughout the industry.
Latterly it has also become responsible for producing the
Sensitisers Listing and Sensitiser Analysis (in conjunction with PRODAROM) which
has been adopted by EFFA and recognised as the Official Lists throughout
Europe. Another useful recent addition is the
ACRONYM list.
The Association’s Technical Expertise has also been
involved in updating and adding European and US Codings to the Biocides/INEL
listing produced by EFFA. Together with other useful data this has been
e-mailed to members and is available on the BEOA website
Through the auspices of Fuerst Day Lawson Ltd., (one of our
earliest members); our Technical Committee chairman Mr
David Moyler
is able to represent the BEOA on the committees of The Royal Society of
Chemistry (results from this are published in the Perfumer and Flavorist
Journal), the Hazard Communications Global Committee, with
EFFA/IFRA/IOFI the new Global Harmonisation System Task Force,
the EFFA
REACH Naturals Task Force, and is the Chairman of the Transport Task Force. He
guest lectures to Leatherhead Food Research and to IFEAT when required. He is
the recipient of papers from EFFA
Fragrance Experts, IFRA Fragrance Expert Analysis EFFA
REACH, The British Society of Perfumers and the British Society of Flavourists
and whenever possible is an attendee at their meetings. The input from our
Technical Committee to the IOFI/IFRA and EFFA
organisations and our commitment to EFEO
ensure that the BEOA is now being recognised internationally. Fuerst Day Lawson
Ltd., have helped the Association’s progress by supplying three former
chairmen.(Ron Neal, Maurice Day Lawson and David
Moyler) as has F. D.
Copeland and Sons (Doug Cox, Roy Smith and Steve Smith)
and the most recent ex Chairman Mr. Steve Smith
is our representative on the EFEO
Board and a member of the EFEO
Technical Committee. Our present
Chairman Mr. Martin Gill and former chairman Mr. Hugo Bovill are both members of
the IFEAT Executive Committee. Thanks are
due to the superb support our Executive and Technical Committees members receive
from their companies allowing them to work on behalf of the members of the
Association and the industry.
The Initial concept of the Association has been extended to
include Aromatic Chemicals as part of its mandate and the recent addition of
Anthony Weston to the Executive will enhance the chemical expertise within the
Committee.
The Secretariat has evolved through Paddy Gray, Julie
Krauze, R. A. Marshall and Walter Anzer to the present, and this secretariat
which consists of Pamela Freeman and myself Malcolm Irvine are the
happy receivers of the results of the hard work done by these able people. The
feeling that we have just about grown up to be what was originally envisaged in
1978, is a prevalent one, however hold tight, we feel there is much more to be
accomplished.
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