Building the infrastructure for safer food.
Global Alliance for Food Safety
Photo Courtesy Suzanne McGinnis
Safer Food depends on good science.
But science alone is not enough.
We need reliable data. We need common standards. We need effective hygiene. We need systems that can communicate with one another. And we need people — academics, companies, and industry — who understand how to turn information into action.
The Global Alliance for Food Safety (formerly known as Alliance for Advanced Sanitation) brings these elements together.
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization operating for the public benefit, building a global community and knowledge infrastructure that connects food safety data, standards, hygiene science, education, research, and emerging technology. We do this by:
Advancing innovation — supporting the research and technology that make food safety more predictive and preventive, not just reactive.
Enabling independent verification — so that claims about safety, hygiene, and performance are backed by evidence, not assumption.
Developing shared standards — so that data, technologies, and people across organizations and borders can actually understand and communicate with one another.
Convening academics, companies, and industry — bringing together the researchers who generate knowledge, the companies who apply it, and the industry voices who understand where it needs to reach, around shared objectives in service of one mission.
Our goal is simple: make food safety information more trusted, more usable, and more actionable, so the world can prevent problems instead of simply reacting to them.
The Vision
A world where food safety information can move as safely and reliably as food itself.
Where data can be understood across organizations and borders.
Where standards allow technologies and people to communicate.
Where hygiene is treated as a science and measured as a critical component of prevention.
Where innovation is rigorously verified before it is trusted, and where academics, companies, and industry work from shared standards rather than in silos.
Where artificial intelligence works to support human health and human wellbeing, built on reliable information rather than unreliable assumptions.
A world where food safety decisions are increasingly predictive, preventive, transparent, and based on evidence.