Visit siteDr Susan Blount outlines the worldwide collaboration Mars is undertaking to create safer food for a healthy tomorrow, including some important work around aflatoxins.
The Mars Global Food Safety Center is a state-of-the-art research and training facility in Beijing, China that is at the heart of a global network of partners and collaborators tackling the most significant food safety challenges facing the planet today.
Our Current Areas of Focus
At Mars, we believe everyone has the right to safe food. We also believe food safety is a shared responsibility between industry, governments, manufacturers, academia and non-government organizations. That is why we advocate for a new approach to food safety, one rooted in collaboration and knowledge sharing, as part of our commitment to creating a better world tomorrow. It is also why, in September 2015, we opened the Mars Global Food Safety Center. By leveraging key collaborations and partnerships, alongside breakthroughs in science and technology, we are helping to address the most significant food safety challenges. We are currently focused on three critical areas of food safety:
Microbial Risk Management
We are investigating innovative, new technologies and methodologies with the potential to transform the management of microbial risk from reactive to predictive and ultimately preventative.
Mycotoxin Risk Management
Our goal is to mitigate and, ultimately, eradicate harmful mycotoxins. We work with strategic partners to generate new knowledge, build capability and develop training, and practical solutions which can be applied to help mitigate risk at vulnerable points in the food supply chain.
Food Integrity
We investigate cutting edge tools, methods and capabilities to help mitigate food integrity challenges across the global food supply chain, helping to protect raw food materials and finished products.
We believe industry has a crucial role to play in helping all stakeholders in the food supply chain identify food safety risks and solutions. That is why we take a pre-competitive approach to food safety, one rooted in collaboration and knowledge sharing, as part of our pledge to ensure safe food for all.
You can find a full list and library of our research and publications here.
Harnessing the Power of International Collaboration
The Mars Global Food Safety Center has more than 25 global food safety partnerships and research collaborations.
We are committed to helping all stakeholders in the global food supply chain identify food safety risks and find solutions. We collaborate with global partners to help deliver food safety training programs and educational insights that promote food safety awareness and encourage good practice.
Featured Publications
The Mars Global Food Safety Center conducts collaborative, original research using cutting edge approaches which are shared through scientific publications and forums.
Development of a Simplified, Sensitive, and Accurate LC-MS/MS Method for Peanut Quantification in Wheat Flour-based Dry Matrices
06/07/2021
Monitoring the Microbiome for Food Safety and Quality Using Deep Shotgun Sequencing
04/12/2021
Synergistic Effects of Butyl Para-hydroxybenzoate and Mild Heating on Foodborne Pathogenic Bacteria
04/12/2021
Fungi Carried over in Jute Bags – a Smoking Gun for Aflatoxin Contamination in the Food Supply Chain
04/12/2021
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