Food for Thought | Food Safety

Pre-licensing Inspections: Speeding Business Up with Technology

Pre-licensing inspections are carried out to ensure food retail establishments are properly designed and equipped to prepare food safely before they can start operations. To speed up the process of inspecting about 4,000 food retail establishments annually, SFA is tapping on technology to help businesses start operations sooner.

28 Apr 2022

Securing Singapore’s Supply of Safe Food: All Day, Every Day

All day and every day, officers from the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) fan out across the island as they work to ensure and secure a supply of safe food for Singapore.

01 Apr 2022

Keeping Food Safe in an Era of Climate Change

Beyond food security, changes in our climate may have an adverse impact on the safety of our food as well. With new threats to food safety due to climate-induced changes in food production, distribution and preparation, SFA is gearing up to respond to new challenges to food safety.

21 Jan 2022

Crunching Data for Food Safety's Sake

To manage the growing threats to our food safety arising from increasingly diverse food sources and complex supply chains, the National Centre for Food Science (NCFS) actively leverages data science to ensure that food in Singapore remains safe for consumption.

04 Dec 2021

Balancing Innovation with Safety: Novel Food

As Singapore ventures further into novel foods and sets it sights on becoming an agri-food hub and a global “living laboratory” for food technologies, food safety remains a priority.

19 Oct 2021