Mission:

Equitable access to safe and nutritious food is a basic societal need that impacts the health, livelihood and wellness of all humans. The ability to provide and sustain such access has become a major concern and a challenge for many countries around the world. The Food Supply Chain Analytics and Sensing (FSAS) Initiative is creating predictive analytical tools and technologies to improve the design and management of safe and reliable food supply chains that are accessible and sustainable.

Areas of Focus

News & Updates

Packaged Food Ingredient Database: Preliminary Findings

The FDA and the HHS recently announced the elimination of six petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply chain by the end of 2026. How prevalent are these colorants currently in the American diet? Our recent report seeks to estimate the number and proportion of foods sold in the U.S. containing these 6 color additives.

READ THE REPORT HERE


Dr. Aouad Receives J-WAFS Seed Grant

FSAS faculty member Dr. Ali Aouad was recently awarded one of this year’s ten seed grants from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water & Food Systems Lab for his work studying optimal subsidy design for food assistance programs. 

READ MORE ABOUT THE AWARD HERE


Congratulations Dr. Zerhouni!

Congratulations to El Ghali Zerhouni, a Ph.D. student on the FSAS team, on the successful defense of his thesis titled “Informing Public Health Policy Design and Operations with Analytics: Methods and Applications”. El Ghali graduated this May with his doctoral degree in Operations Research.

READ MORE ABOUT EL GHALI’S WORK HERE


 

"Leveraging Machine Learning to Assess Market-level Food Safety and Zoonotic Disease Risks in China."

Gao, Qihua, Retsef Levi, and Nicholas Renegar. Scientific Reports Vol. 12, (2022): 1650.

Faculty: Retsef Levi
"​Public Health Risks Arising from Food Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities."

Chen, Lu, Donovan Guttieres, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, Georgia Perakis, Nicholas Renegar, and Stacy Springs. Naval Research Logistics Vol. 68, No. 8 (2021): 1098-1112.

"Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low Income Households."

Levi, Retsef, Elisabeth Paulson, and Georgia Perakis (Submitted to Management Science, revision requested), Working Paper. July 2022.

"Improving Farmers’ Income on Online Agri-platforms: Evidence from the Field."

Levi, Retsef, Manoj Rajan, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng, MIT Sloan Working Paper 5863-19. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2022.

 

 

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