Food safety: science in action.

Everyone involved in the food supply chain - from producers, to processors, transporters, retailers, cooks and consumers - relies on the universal application of good practices, agreed processes and standards to keep food safe. These all draw on the careful, clear and thoughtful application of the best available scientific evidence that explores how and why food can become contaminated and make us sick. 

Scientists assess and analyse risks to human health associated with known, established, emerging and anticipated food safety hazards, and they provide advice to assist policymakers, food businesses and consumers make safe choices.

Without science, it would not be possible to maintain food safety along supply chains, which often span the globe and cross multiple borders. 

This World Food Safety Day, we are celebrating the important role that science plays in making informed decisions about food.