DTU National Food Institute is responsible for a large part of the Danish research-based public sector consultancy within nutrition, food quality, food safety and environment and health. The Institute provides advisory services e.g. to the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration and the Danish Environmental Protection Agency.
Our public sector consultancy covers both science-based material, advisory services and research assignments, monitoring and surveillance of dietary habits and food safety in Denmark as well as diagnostic and analytical food examination. DTU National Food Institute is furthermore an important part of the national food safety contingency plan.
DTU National Food Institute provides scientific advice to a number of international authorities and organisations. The Institute thus contributes extensively to the work in the European Food Safety Authority, EFSA, and advisory services to, among others, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, the World Health Organization, WHO, and the European Medicines Agency, EMA. The Institute also collaborates with research institutions in other countries on risk assessment within food and environment.
DTU National Food Institute is the national reference laboratory for chemical and microbiological food contaminations and serves as international reference laboratory for the EU and the WHO in a number of areas.
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