Food Decision Engineering for safer, more resilient food systems
Turning risk assessment into measurable impact
Food Decision Engineering for safer, more resilient food systems
Turning risk assessment into measurable impact
Turn food-safety evidence into decisions that reduce illness
Food Decision Intelligence for safer food systems
The International Food Risk Analysis Consortium (IFoRAC) applies Food Decision Engineering to help governments, international organizations and food-system actors transform risk assessment, data and expert knowledge into practical interventions, defensible priorities and measurable impact.
Discover how IFoRAC can support your next strategic food-system decision.
Better evidence does not automatically produce better decisions
WHO estimates that unsafe food caused 866 million illnesses, 1.52 million deaths and 57.1 million lost healthy life years in 2021.
These estimates show where the burden may be greatest. But decision-makers still need to determine:
- Which foods and pathways should be targeted?
- Which interventions are feasible?
- What reduction in risk can reasonably be expected?
- How should uncertainty affect priorities?
- How can safety be improved without compromising food security, sustainability or trade?
IFoRAC helps close this gap.
From burden estimates to action
What IFoRAC offers
Food Decision Missions
A Food Decision Mission is a focused engagement that takes one important food-system decision from problem formulation to an implementable and measurable action portfolio.
Burden-to-Action
Translate food-borne disease estimates and national evidence into intervention and investment priorities.
Climate-Ready Food Safety
Anticipate how climate and supply-chain changes could alter hazards, surveillance needs and prevention strategies.
Safe Innovation Fast-Track
Define the decision-grade evidence needed to evaluate novel foods and production systems efficiently without lowering the safety bar.
Balanced Food-System Decisions
Compare options across food safety, nutrition, food security, affordability, sustainability, waste and trade.
Explore the four Decision Missions
How a mission works
From question to decision capability
- Frame
Define the decision, owner, deadline, objectives and constraints. - Connect
Assemble risk assessments, burden estimates, surveillance, consumption, inspection, climate, trade and operational evidence. - Simulate
Compare interventions and propagate uncertainty across alternative scenarios. - Decide
Identify robust options and make trade-offs visible. - Learn
Monitor implementation, define triggers and improve the next decision.
Each mission can leave the client with a reusable Food Decision Twin: an updateable representation of the evidence, pathways, intervention options, consequences and indicators supporting the decision.
How Food Decision Missions work
How we work with
Solutions designed around the client’s decisions
- International organizations: convert global frameworks, estimates and foresight into implementable country and regional programmes.
- Governments and competent authorities: prioritize hazards, investments, inspections, surveillance and regulatory actions.
- Food sectors and companies: strengthen source prevention, supplier resilience and safe innovation.
- Development partners: design measurable, scalable and country-owned food-safety investments.
- Research and academic institutions: transform scientific methods into reusable decision capabilities.
Find your IFoRAC solution
Why IFoRAC
Scientific credibility with an implementation mindset
IFoRAC combines:
- Quantitative microbiological and chemical risk assessment
- Dietary exposure and risk-benefit analysis
- Food safety governance and Codex experience
- Decision science, economics and trade-off analysis
- Artificial intelligence and reusable analytical tools
- International capacity building and institutional design
Our work is transparent about uncertainty, proportionate to the available evidence and designed to remain useful when data are incomplete.
What food decision does your organization need to make?
Tell us the decision, who owns it, when it is needed and what evidence is currently available. IFoRAC can propose a focused first step.
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