Friday, 06 June 2025
Food safety research is essential to address any gaps in food safety knowledge, to support improvement of, and compliance with, food safety regulations and to identify emerging issues and threats to the food system in Ireland.
The FSAI is not a research funding body and therefore it is essential that it communicates areas of priority food safety research to state bodies that fund research and also, to scientists in research institutes who are applying for funding. These areas can be incorporated into research calls by funding bodies, or they can be the subject of researcher-led funding proposals submitted to research funding bodies.
This document outlines priority research areas that would advance the risk assessment and risk management work of the FSAI and support the protection of public health. They are listed under broad topic headings, and they include suggestions for major research projects as well as smaller desk top research studies. Relevant work in the field of study that has been brought to the FSAI’s attention is listed to help researchers, but it is not a comprehensive list of relevant studies and researchers are advised to research the state-of-the-art in any particular area.
