Food Safety and Nutrition

Overview: This programme focuses on applied aspects of advanced and emerging analytical technologies to address current issues in food safety, nutrition and food supply. It covers the entire food chain from farm to fork and places a strong emphasis on the link between improved food safety and nutrition and improved public health. Research Strengths Advanced and emerging technological and analytical platforms (biosensors, isotopic and omics)  Animal food and feed safety  Animal health and disease diagnostics  Global food security  Food and nutrition metabolomics  Food and nutrition quality measurements  Food chemistry  Food safety detection methodology  Food traceability and authenticity  Immunodiagnostics for food contaminant and toxin detection  Natural compounds and their health applications  Novel and functional foods  Therapeutic biomolecules