Dr Susan Blount outlines the worldwide collaboration Mars is undertaking to create safer food for a healthy tomorrow, including some important work around aflatoxins.

On May 14, 2021, the first Food Safety Coalition meeting took place, bringing together a group of like-minded organizations to collaborate and progress solutions in the critical area of food safety, specifically data and knowledge sharing to address the challenge of aflatoxin contamination in raw materials.

As a leading global food and pet product manufacturer, Mars has always been relatively low-key, however there is one topic where Mars is quite “high-key” - food safety research.