New Food Safety Research Project Database

Recently launched FSRIO (www.nal.usda.gov/fsrio) is the latest addition to the USDA’s long list of comprehensive food-related Web sites.

Created by the USDA’s Food Safety Research Information Office (from which it got its name), the site provides detailed information on food safety research projects and spending, along with links to important food safety research information contained in the USDA’s National Agricultural Library.

The searchable database provides information on nearly 500 food safety research projects dating from 1998 to the present, including research done or funded by: USDA Agricultural Research Service; USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; the Food Safety Consortium (researchers from the University of Arkansas, Iowa State University, and Kansas State University); and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Food and Drug Administration.

“This Web site is a tool that researchers and policy makers can use to examine research needs and priorities in food safety,” said Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman. “The goal is to measure the progress of our food safety research and continue efforts to educate the public about these important issues.”

So whether you are looking for newly released food safety documents or the results of a recently completed research project—or even if you want to submit a project of your own for funding— you’ll find what you need at FSRIO.