The Food Safety Consortium conducts research on new ways to maintain and enhance food safety to ensure America will continue to enjoy high quality food in the future.

Established in 1988, the Consortium is developing technology to rapidly identify contaminants, methods to evaluate potential health risks, risk-monitoring techniques to detect potential hazards in the food chain, and the most effective intervention points to control microbiological or chemical hazards.

Iowa State University is a Collaborating Center for the World Health Organization in the area of food safety and research.