Researchers associated with the Safe Food for Infants in the EU and China (SAFFI) consortium recently published three papers in Global Pediatrics addressing health hazards in infant foods. The first paper sets forth a model for hazard identification and risk ranking, and serves as a proof-of-concept for the SAFFI project. The second paper identifies microbial and chemical hazards in infant foods. The third paper explores new and emerging processing and preservation technologies, as well as describes how SAFFI is addressing the research to control several prominent hazards in infant foods.
SAFFI focuses on foods for children under the age of three throughout the EU and China. Its goals are to benchmark the main safety risks of infant foods under its purview, create hazard control procedures, develop a decision support system for stakeholders to use to enhance safety control throughout the food chain, and initiate information-sharing and training to harmonize infant food safety approaches in China and the EU.