Food Standards Agency strategic challenge on food security

The Food Standards Agency is inviting researchers to come up with innovative approaches to answering four key food safety challenges.

The Agency usually issues calls for evidence to address specific research questions, but is piloting this new approach to commissioning research to identify innovative approaches and provide significant leaps forward in addressing our strategic challenges.

Four challenges have been identified:

• ensuring imported food is safe to eat, including early identification of emerging risks
• using novel methods in managing outbreaks of foodborne disease
• improving compliance of food businesses with food safety laws
• obtaining better data on costs to industry that will be used to inform Agency policies

Further information and an application can be found through our on-line procurement portal: https://fsa-esourcing.eurodyn.com/epps/home.do

The deadline for applications is 14 September.