Table 1.

Examples of various definitions of food regulatory science

Institution	Definition
MFDS	Regulatory science for foods, drugs, etc. means science related to technologies, standards, and approaches in all aspects of safety management, ranging from the evaluation in terms of safety, efficacy, quality, and performance, etc. of foods, drugs, etc. to authorization, permission, and use
FDA	Regulatory Science is the science of developing new tools, standards, and approaches to assess the safety, efficacy, quality, and performance of all FDA-regulated products
EFSA	Regulatory science refers to the transdisciplinary scientific information, including risk/safety assessments, methods, tools, models, and scientific advice, to support sound and transparent science-based policies
FSANZ	Regulatory science is a broad discipline, grounded in a fundamental knowledge of science and regulation. It consists of the application of science to support policy, notably regulatory objectives. It requires the integration of a large variety of scientific fields, the development of new methods, and the ability to synthesize information from many sources to quantify risk and support regulatory and other policy objectives
GFoRSS	The sciences underpinning food regulatory decisions, as a multi-disciplinary field of food science, including, but not limited to, the application of food risk analysis and associated disciplines, the development of food laws, and the assessment of economic impacts of food regulatory measures

MFDS Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, FDA Food and Drug Administration, EFSA European Food Safety Authority, FSANZ Food Standards Australia New Zealand, GoFRSS Global Food Regulatory Science Society