safefood has a legislative remit to carry out food safety research. We do not consider this function in isolation, but as in integral component of safefood's primary function to 'bring about general acceptance that responsibility for the provision of safe food is shared among producers, processors, distributors at all levels, caterers and the general public'. Promotion of food safety is targeted at the whole food chain and, as a consequence, so is safefood research.

Research projects funded to date can be categorised broadly into the following subject areas:

• Chemistry and Toxicology
• Food Hygiene
• Food Safety Knowledge and Communication
• Microbiology
• Nutrition
• Surveillance

For more information about safefood's research programme, please download our Research Portfolio, or click on the links below.

Chemistry | Microbiology | Nutrition | Surveillance | Toxicology | Food safety knowledge and communication