SRIA – Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda for Food Safety in Europe

The EU Food Safety Platform has released its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for Food Safety in Europe, a co-created roadmap to address emerging and novel food hazards and risks and to support a safe transition towards sustainable food systems. The SRIA provides concrete short-, medium- and long-term priorities to guide research funders, policymakers and practitioners.

What is in the SRIA

The Agenda identifies eight major challenge areas, from climate change and food security to digital traceability, new technologies, sustainable processing, One Health, science-based decision-making and communication/data sharing. In total, 112 research and innovation topics are clustered into actionable timelines, linking food safety to EU Green Deal, Farm to Fork and Food 2030 goals.​

A participatory roadmap for action

Developed within the FoodSafety4EU project, the SRIA was co-created through a living-lab based Food Safety Operational Lab (FSOLab) involving more than 30 experts from authorities, academia, industry, consumer organisations and EU bodies, supported by an open consultation with over 300 respondents. This multi-actor and multi-level process ensures that the priorities reflect real needs for safer, more transparent and resilient food systems.

Why it matters and how to use it

Short-term actions focus on topics that can be implemented within four years, including dynamic hazard monitoring, digital traceability, smart packaging, integrated risk assessment and faster, evidence-based decision-making. Medium- and long-term actions address climate-related risks, alternative proteins, circular food systems, antimicrobial resistance and systemic One Health approaches.​
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