Wageningen Research
About Wageningen Research
Wageningen Research (WR) comprises seven specialized institutes conducting applied research in food, environment, health, and sustainability. WR dedicated to addressing global challenges related to healthy food systems and sustainable living environments. With a strong community of researchers from around the world, WR integrates expertise from natural and social sciences to deliver high-quality, practice-oriented research. Through close collaboration with governments, industry, and society, WR translates scientific knowledge into solutions that support evidence-based policy, innovation, and real-world impact. Its scientific excellence is widely recognised through strong positions in international rankings and citation indexes.
Wageningen Research's role at DEFENSEFOOD
Wageningen Research, and in particular the institutes Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR) and Wageningen Social & Economic research (WSER), contribute advanced scientific expertise to DEFENSEFOOD, supporting the detection and untargeted analysis of chemical, biological, and radiological hazards in food and feed, and assessing the effectiveness of control measures.
WFSR applies state-of-the-art analytical methods and data-driven models to help identify food safety hazards, assess vulnerabilities in the food supply chain, and support evidence-based risk management and decision-making.
WSER applies state-of-the-art methods to evaluate the effectiveness of technologies proposed in DEFENSEFOOD.