Elizabeth Sharp

Senior Analyst

Telephone Number
+44(0)131 244 8874

Research interests/Areas of expertise

Pesticide Residue Analysis
Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme (Scotland) – Team Manager
Quality Management

Biography

I joined SASA in 1985 as a trainee analyst in the Chemistry Section. I studied Chemistry (part-time) at Napier University, Edinburgh and became a Graduate of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 1992. I have many years of experience in the analysis of pesticide residues in animal tissues and foodstuffs and became a Senior Analyst in 1995.
I am the WIIS (Scotland) Team Manager within the Pesticides Branch at SASA; responsible for the management and operation of the laboratory investigations into incidents of alleged pesticide poisoning of animals.
I became the Quality Manager (QM) for the Branch in 2008 after several years as Deputy QM.

Representational Duties

SASA representative at the Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime, Scotland (PAWS) Raptor Group since 2014.

Member of the Rodenticides Stewardship Regime Government Oversight Group since October 2016.

Publications

One of the authors of the Pesticide Poisoning of Animals Report series - view list of Pesticide Poisoning of Animals Reports - as well as the following publications:

Taylor MJ, Nevison I, Casali F, Giergiel M, Giela A, Campbell S, Sharp EA, Hartley G, Posyniak A. 2020. Investigation of the distribution of anticoagulant rodenticide residues in red fox (Vulpes vulpes) livers to ensure optimum sampling protocol. Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology. 2:50-55.
Taylor MJ, Giela A, Sharp EA, Senior CC, Vyas DS. 2019. A rapid multi-class, multi-residue UHPLC-MS/MS method for the simultaneous determination of anticoagulant rodenticides, pesticides and veterinary medicines in wild animals, pets and livestock. Analytical Methods. 11(8):1087-1101.
Giela A, McEwan M, Cockerell V, Melton L, Senior C, Sharp E, Taylor MJ, Vyas D. 2019. Development of a new analytical service for the qualitative and quantitative determination of selected mycotoxins in cereals by liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MSMS). Development of a new analytical service for the qualitative and quantitative determination of selected mycotoxins in cereals (975.46 KB)
Taylor MJ, Giela A, Senior C, Sharp EA, Titman CM, Luzardo OP, Suarez NR. 2018. Multi-residue determination of anticoagulant rodenticides in vertebrate wildlife and domestic animals using Ultra (High) Performance Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry. MethodsX. 5:149-158.
Giela A, Senior CC, Sharp EA, Taylor MJ, Vyas DS. 2018. The quantitative and qualitative multi-residue determination of over 150 multi-class chemical contaminants in vertebrate animal tissues using QuEChERS extraction, SPE clean-up and LCMSMS. The quantitative and qualitative multi-residue determination of over 150 multi-class chemical contaminants... (611.09 KB)
Shore RF, Potter ED, Walker LA, Pereira MG, Chaplow JS, Jaffe JE, Sainsbury AW, Barnett EA, Charman S, Jones A et al.. 2018. The Relative Importance of Different Trophic Pathways for Secondary Exposure to Anticoagulant Rodenticides. Proceedings of the Vertebrate Pest Conference. 28:322-328.
Ruiz-Suárez N, Melero Y, Giela A, Henríquez-Hernández LA, Sharp EA, Boada LD, Taylor MJ, Camacho M, Lambin X, Luzardo OP et al.. 2016. Rate of exposure of a sentinel species, invasive American mink (Neovison vison) in Scotland, to anticoagulant rodenticides. Science of The Total Environment. 569–570:1013–1021.
Taylor MJ, Melton LM, Sharp EA, Watson JE. 2013. A liquid chromatography-electrospray tandem mass spectrometry method for the determination of multiple pesticide residues involved in suspected poisoning of non-target vertebrate wildlife, livestock and pets. Analytical Methods. 5(1):248-259.
Hartley G, Sharp EA, Melton LM, Taylor MJ. 2013. Impact of changes to the requirements for the on-farm burial of rats poisoned with rodenticides in Scotland. Impact of changes to the requirements for the on-farm burial of rats poisoned with rodenticides in Scotland - (2).pdf (1.12 MB)
Hughes J, Sharp EA, Taylor MJ, Melton LM, Hartley G. 2013. Monitoring agricultural rodenticide use and secondary exposure of raptors in Scotland. Ecotoxicology. 22(6):974-984.
Hughes J, Sharp EA, Taylor MJ, Melton LM. 2013. Monitoring Plant Protection Product and Rodenticide Use and Wildlife Exposure in Scotland. SETAC 2013 Monitoring PPP and rodenticide use and wildlife exposure in scotland.pdf (904.12 KB)
Melton LM, Keenan GA, Sharp EA, Taylor MJ. 2012. A complementary multi-residue LC-MSMS method for faster laboratory investigations into suspected poisoning of vertebrate wildlife and domestic animals. Chem poster - Montreux 2012 (1.08 MB)
Hughes J, Sharp EA, Taylor MJ. 2012. Secondary exposure of Red Kites (Milvus milvus) to anticoagulant rodenticides. SETAC 2012 secondary exposure of red kites.pdf (1.04 MB)
Hughes J, Sharp EA, Taylor MJ. 2011. A decade of monitoring anticoagulant rodenticide use and non-target wildlife exposure in Scotland. SETAC Europe Science Symposium “Environmental Risk Assessment of Biocides”, Brussels.
Tosh DG, McDonald RA, Bearhop S, Lllewellyn NR, Fee S, Sharp EA, Barnett EA, Shore RF. 2011. Does small mammal prey guild affect the exposure of predators to anticoagulant rodenticides? Environmental Pollution. 159(10):3106-3112.
Keenan GA, Melton LM, Sharp EA, Giela A, Taylor MJ. 2011. The investigation of wildlife poisoning by Q-TOF MS using an atmospheric pressure solids analysis probe. THE INVESTIGATION OF WILDLIFE POISONING ASAP final Feb2012.pdf (1.91 MB)
Sharp EA, Giela A, Mulholland V, Taylor MJ. 2009. Combining Analytical Chemistry and DNA Barcoding techniques to identify chemicals and species involved in the poisoning of vertebrate wildlife in Scotland. chem poster - Combining analytical chemistry and DNA barcoding.pdf (1.3 MB)
Taylor MJ, Sharp EA. 2009. Fatal Attraction - Illegal Poisoning of Animals in Scotland. In Practice: Bulletin of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. 64(June):12-13.
Taylor MJ, Sharp EA, Melton LM, Giela A, Watson JE. 2009. Walk on the wild side: An Investigation into secondary poisoning of wild birds using LC-MS. Official Publication of the British Mass Spectrometry Society. Edition 60(November 2009):12-14.
Mulholland V, Sharp EA, Giela A, Taylor MJ. 2008. Identification of animal tissue in support of WIIS. Identification of animal tissue in support of WIIS.pdf (1.69 MB)
Giela A, Sharp EA, Taylor MJ. 2007. The analysis of anticoagulant rodenticides in animal tissue using HPLC-ESI-MS/MS detection and the environmental impact of their use on wildlife in Scotland. Chem poster - Glasgow 2007.pdf (1.05 MB)
Sharp EA, Taylor MJ, Giela A, Hunter K. 2007. The Environmental Impact of Anticoagulant Rodenticide Use on Wildlife in Scotland. Chem poster - Portugal 2007.pdf (1.08 MB)
Hunter K, Taylor MJ, Sharp EA, Melton LM, Le Bouhellec S. 2004. Determination of chloralose residues in animal tissues by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionisation tandem mass spectrometry. Journal of Chromatography B. 805(2):303-309.
Sharp EA, Le Bouhellec S, Melton LM, Taylor MJ, Hunter K. 2001. Analytical Diagnosis of Chloralose Poisoning in Scottish Wildlife Crime Investigation. Chem poster - Glasgow 2001.pdf (252.97 KB)
Taylor MJ, Sharp EA, Le Bouhellec S, Melton LM, Hunter K, Sage AB. 2001. The Determination of Chloralose Residues in Poisoned Birds of Prey. Chem poster - Cambridge 2001.pdf (617.49 KB)
Hunter K, Sharp EA. 1999. Pesticide related mortality of honey bees in 1998. Scottish Beekeeper. 76:95-97.
Carnegie SF, Cameron AM, Lindsay DA, Sharp EA, Nevison IM. 1998. The effect of treating seed potato tubers with benzimidazole, imidazole and phenylpyrrole fungicides in the control of rot and skin blemish diseases. Annals of Applied Biology . 133(3):343-363.
Hunter K, Sharp EA, Newton A. 1988. Determination of diastereoisomers of bromadiolone, an anticoagulant rodenticide, in animal tissues by high-performance liquid chromatography. Journal of Chromatography A. 435:83–95.
Hunter K, Sharp EA. 1988. Modification to procedures for the determination of chlorophacinone and for multi-residue analysis of rodenticides in animal tissues. Journal of Chromatography A. 437:301–305.