Basic research is going to be carried out to reveal the human exposition and environmental burden of the risk factors responsible for the weakening of food safety situation (hazards of agronomic, traffic, environmental and climatic origin, such as pesticide residues, heavy metals, mycotoxins; factors injurious to health on long run due to abused feeding and manufacturing practices, i.e. pathogenic microbes, illegal growth promoters, antibiotics; GMOs).

Selective and sensitive measuring/detection methods will be developed to ensure the tracing of risk factors. Data bases suitable to prove the efficacy of hazard eliminating processes (probiotics, bacteriocins, new non-thermal treatments), as well as for carrying out comparative risk analysis of potentially hazard-carrying, new so far non-regulated technologies and foods, and for the investigation of their effect on the human exposure, environmental load and epidemiological consequences will be created.

To manage food safety at national level euro-conform models are going to be developed.

The governmental officials on the base of the scientifically elaborated proposal develop the optimum risk communication within the scope of the National Food Safety Strategy. The published scientific results will have a favourable impact on the Hungarian food industry in the preparation of EU accession. Improving the level of risk communication will inspire the economy and the participants of the market competitors due to the conscious decision-making of the consumers. As a result of the effective risk communication a decrease in the number of food-borne diseases can be expected, that also means the significant decrease of the related health care costs.