Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition


The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is a department of the FDA whose mission is "to promote and protect the public health and economic interest by ensuring that the food supply is safe, nutritious, wholesome, and honest, and that cosmetics are safe and properly labeled." The CFSAN WWW site provides access to a variety of FDA publications, covering such areas as food additives, biotechnology, food labeling, and foodborne illnesses.