Case Study: Food Standards Agency improves food safety risk assessment with VSN International's Genstat

Food Standards Agency safer food for the nation

The Food Standards Agency, whose mission is to make food safer for the nation, needed a robust way to assess chemical exposure in food and model risks such as contaminants, pesticides, additives, and biotoxins. VSN International supported the agency with Genstat, helping them handle complex food safety data and produce reliable analyses for policy decisions.

VSN International’s Genstat was used to combine occurrence data with human intake data for exposure assessment and to build hierarchical generalized linear models for shellfish biotoxin risk assessment. The solution delivered fast, flexible modelling, supported risk-based sampling priorities around the UK, and enabled policy-relevant inferences to better target public health protections.

Food Standards Agency