Peter Farmer

Peter Farmer FRSC, CChem is a British toxicologist.

Farmer attended the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1957 to 1963 and won an Open Scholarship in Natural Sciences to Lincoln College, Oxford where he took a first in chemistry.

Farmer spent most of his early career as a researcher with the Toxicology Unit at the Medical Research Council.

In 2002 he was appointed joint Director of the MRC's Cancer Biomarkers and Prevention ESS (external scientific staff ) Group at the University of Leicester.

He served as chair of the Government Advisory Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment, beginning in 2001.