Science can help make our food safe––even before it gets to the supermarket.

Thanks to Agricultural Research Service scientists and their fancy equipment, our country has a very safe food supply.

ARS research helps ensure that delicious foods like these deli meats are safe to eat.

Baked desserts are delicious—and much safer to eat than raw batter!

One good way to make food safe is to heat it up. But heat can change the flavor and texture of your food.

Sometimes this is a good thing—chocolate chip cookies are safer to eat than cookie dough—and they taste delicious!

But sometimes heating up food makes it taste weird. So scientists use fancy equipment to reduce the number of microorganisms on, and in, our food without heating it up.