Strategic Vision

Mission Statement

The mission of National Program (NP) 108, Food Safety, is to use research to help ensure that the U.S. food supply is safe for consumers; and that food and feed meet domestic and foreign regulatory requirements. The program seeks ways to assess, control or eliminate potentially harmful foodborne contaminants, including both introduced and naturally occurring pathogenic bacteria, non-pathogenic bacteria, viruses and parasites; bacterial toxins, fungal toxins (mycotoxins), algal toxins and plant toxins; non-biological-based chemical contaminants, and foreign materials.

Program Vision

Enhance and protect public health and agriculture through the development of technologies, strategies, and data that safeguard food from pathogens, toxins, and chemical contaminants during production, processing, distribution and preparation, thus increasing the safety of the U.S. food supply.

Food Borne Contaminants

Problem Statements:

1. Toxicology, and Toxinology of Bacterial, Plant, Algal and Fungal Toxins

2. Technologies to Detect, Quantify and Characterize Chemical and Biological

3. Develop and Apply Models, Informational Databases and Data Science Tools and Technologies for Foodborne Contaminants

4. Advance Integrated, Food Systems-Based Approaches to Identify Drivers and Control Transmission of Foodborne Contaminants

5. Develop, Validate and Implement Intervention and Control Strategies for Foodborne Contaminants

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