The list below serves as the central access point to the broad range of food safety expertise at Purdue.
- Workshops and Services for the Food Industry and Food Entreprenuers (pdf)
- Foods and Nutrition Publications
- Food Safety Publications
- Purdue Extension: Food & Health
This Extension specialty aims to help consumers better understand and evaluate nutrition and food safety information.
- Purdue Extension Consumer and Family Sciences
This program provides informal educational programs to improve the quality of individual, family, and community life.
- Department of Foods and Nutrition
This department has special strengths in calcium, vitamin D, and bone; botanicals for age-related diseases; diet, energy balance, and fitness; and an emerging specialty area of cancer prevention.
- Materials about safe food handling and manufacturing are available at the Department of Food and Science outreach site.
- Extension Disaster Education Network (EDEN)
This site provides resources to help you solve disaster-related problems and information about who to contact in the event of a natural disaster.
- Purdue/University of Alabama Botanicals Research Center for Age-Related Diseases
This center studies the effectiveness and mechanism of action of plant compounds purported to reduce the risk of cancer, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, cognitive function, and other age-related diseases.
- The Center for Enhancing Foods to Protect Health
This multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional effort conducts research on nutraceuticals (a food or naturally occurring food supplement thought to have a beneficial effect on human health) and studies how to deliver designed functional foods to consumers.
- Center for Food Safety Engineering
The center focuses on building multidisciplinary teams and developing better approaches for detection and control of foodborne hazards that affect the U.S. food supply.
- Food Safety Backgrounder
A chronological list of Purdue news releases about food safety issues.
- Agricultural Biotechnology on the Table
Answers questions such as: Am I eating biotech foods? Is this stuff safe to eat? Are genetically engineered food natural? Will we see labels on biotech foods? -- And it includes an interactive biotech quiz!
- Food Safety and Quality
A great collection of links relating to all kinds of food safety issues. Most Web pages are maintained by the food safety faculty to ensure relevant information.
- College of Consumer and Family Sciences
The college is a national leader in promoting healthy families and communities.