New institute for food safety

From 1 June 2019, RIKILT Wageningen University & Research and the Laboratory for Feed and Food Safety of the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) will form a new institute. The new organization is called Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR) and is part of Wageningen University & Research. The necessary documents were signed in Wageningen on 14 January 2019.

Unique knowledge institution

The merger of the two organizations will create a unique knowledge institution for food and feed safety in the Netherlands. The new institute will be able to provide more effective and knowledge-intensive laboratory support for NVWA and the central government. This merger will increase knowledge in the field of food and feed safety and food fraud. Wageningen Food Safety Research is a major support for incidents and crises for NVWA, the Ministries of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and Public Health, Welfare and Sport and plays a role in environmental incidents and (food) poisoning. In addition, WFSR also functions as a national and European reference laboratory.

The new institute can further expand its activities as an internationally renowned research center by joining forces.

Source: NVWA