Mar 27th, 2025
2 mins
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) have recently issued the very last newsletter from the Pathogen Surveillance in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (PATH-SAFE) programme
PATH-SAFE is a 4-year, UK wide, cross government programme, led by the FSA and supported by £24m funding from the HMT Shared Outcomes Fund (SOF) and match funding from a range of government and academic delivery partners.
The programme is working to develop a pilot national surveillance network, using the latest DNA-sequencing technology and environmental sampling, to improve the detection, and tracking of foodborne human pathogens and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through the whole agri-food system from farm-to-fork.
As the programme draws to a close at the end of March 2025, this final March 2025 newsletter reflects on the successes of the programme and looks to the future.
Through over 30 different projects, spanning four thematic areas (Data Sharing and Analysis, Foodborne Disease, Antimicrobial Resistance and On-Site Diagnostics), the programme has broken new ground scientifically and has challenged the status quo. It has generated new knowledge (pillar 1), brought data together (pillar 2) and developed new methodologies, approaches and tools (pillar 3).
You can read the newsletter in full here
