June 7 is World Food Safety Day. This year’s theme is “From burden to solutions – safe food everywhere”. Today and throughout the week, we’ll be shining a light on the work of PHF Science and our partners to keep food safe in New Zealand.
Each day, more than 5 million New Zealanders and around 40 million consumers around the world interact with our food system, from farm to fork. Food safety is a key part of the wider New Zealand food story. Food and beverage exports make up 64% of total merchandise exports, reaching over 200 marketplaces around the world, and providing employment and prosperity for hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders.
Employing the largest group of microbiologists in New Zealand, PHF Science’s expertise, relationships and track record stretch across every food production sector. No one else in the country undertakes a broader or deeper range of research and investigation into food safety, quality and authenticity.
Our food safety impact
PHF Science expert chairs major global food safety group
Farm to fork: PHF Science strengthening poultry food safety
Process Hygiene Index gets a major refresh to support New Zealand’s meat industry
30th Anniversary of STEC discovery in Aotearoa
Back to the future: discovery of a new bacterial species, decades in the making
Don’t Let STEC spoil dinner: keeping kai safe
Turning data into safer decisions: Nikki King’s food safety impact
A sea-sourced solution to an agricultural problem
Celebrating Peter Cressey’s contribution to safer food in New Zealand
The hidden hitchhikers in our water
