Dedicated to improving global food safety standards, Safe Food International is a new project under The Center for Science in the Public Interest's food safety banner. Its main objective is to develop guidelines for consumer and public health NGOs to evaluate their national food safety programs and to craft a common vision of food safety recommendations. Such guidelines will help to ensure that national governments would respond in a comprehensive and transparent manner in the event of intentional or unintentional contamination of the food supply.

The World Health Organization, the Food and Agricultural Organization, CSPI, in collaboration with CECHE will convene a conference in Geneva in 2004. Project evaluation will be based upon attracting a broad array of organizations concerned with food safety readiness to the conference, and developing and distributing recommendations based on conference proceedings.