The Food Standards Agency(FSA)is inviting researchers to develop innovative proposals that would improve food safety and help the agency address its strategic challenges.
The focus of this call to tender,with a total spending pot of £500,000,is on scientific excellence.The Agency is looking for potentially high risk/high gain projects that use new approaches to address its key objective of safer food for the nation.
The open call develops further the strategic challenge initiative started in 2011.
This initiative seeks to ensure that imported food is safe to eat,;using novel methods in managing outbreaks of foodborne disease;improving compliance of food businesses with food safety laws;and obtaining better data on costs to industry that will be used to inform Agency policies.
According to the agency,applications should be submitted using the agency's electronic procurement system by 13 September 2012.
