Human Nutrition and Food Safety
The Division for Human Nutrition and Food Safety aims to study dietary behaviour and its relationship with health, well-being and the environment. It is also interested in the nutritional quality and safety of food, while integrating the notion of nutritional safety in its sanitary, environmental and social dimensions.
About us
The division brings together a multidisciplinary scientific community of nearly 400 staff - biologists, microbiologists, biochemists, chemists, physiologists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, nutritionists, behaviourists, psychologists, bioinformaticians and modellers - working in joint research units.
The division's research aims to respond to the major societal issues relating to human nutrition (determinants of food behaviour and choice, food/health relationship, food toxicology, nutritional safety and environmental impact). The production of knowledge and scientific advances allow national and international bodies, public and private partners and citizens to stay abreast of developments in the field.
The division's mission is to understand the relationship between food and human health, at both the individual and population levels, in order to better address the issues of health and the sustainability of diets.
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Key figures
Teams
- 18 units
- 148 researchers
- 83 engineers
- 146 technicians
Results
- 56 invention disclosures since 2016
- 90 research collaboration contracts since 2016
- 445 publications in peer-reviewed journals en 2019
