Food Safety

The list below serves as the central access point to the broad range of food safety expertise at Purdue.

• Workshops and Services for the Food Industry and Food Entreprenuers (pdf)
• Foods and Nutrition Publications
• Food Safety Publications
• Purdue Extension: Foods and Nutrition
  This Extension specialty aims to help consumers better understand and evaluate nutrition and food safety information.
• Purdue Extension Consumer and Family Sciences
  This program provides informal educational programs to improve the quality of individual, family, and community life.
• Department of Foods and Nutrition
  This department has special strengths in calcium, vitamin D, and bone; botanicals for age-related diseases; diet, energy balance, and fitness; and an emerging specialty area of cancer prevention.
• Food Safety Day
  This is a three-hour curriculum in safe food handling for retail food establishments. All the files are available for downloading. Other materials about safe food handling and manufacturing are available at the Department of Food and Science outreach site.
• Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN)
  This site provides resources to help you solve disaster-related problems and information about who to contact in the event of a natural disaster.
• Purdue/University of Alabama Botanicals Research Center for Age-Related Diseases
  This center studies the effectiveness and mechanism of action of plant compounds purported to reduce the risk of cancer, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, cognitive function, and other age-related diseases.
• The Center for Enhancing Foods to Protect Health
  This multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional effort conducts research on nutraceuticals (a food or naturally occurring food supplement thought to have a beneficial effect on human health) and studies how to deliver designed functional foods to consumers.
• The Center for Food Safety Engineering
  Microbiologists from the food science department work with other Purdue areas for the rapid detection and eradication of foodborne pathogens.
• Center for Food Safety Engineering
  The center focuses on building multidisciplinary teams and developing better approaches for detection and control of foodborne hazards that affect the U.S. food supply.
• Food Safety Backgrounder
  A chronological list of Purdue news releases about food safety issues.
• Agricultural Biotechnology on the Table
  Answers questions such as: Am I eating biotech foods? Is this stuff safe to eat? Are genetically engineered food natural? Will we see labels on biotech foods? -- And it includes an interactive biotech quiz!
• Food Safety and Quality
  A great collection of links relating to all kinds of food safety issues. Most Web pages are maintained by the food safety faculty to ensure relevant information.
• College of Consumer and Family Sciences
  The college is a national leader in promoting healthy families and communities.