Food Research Institute (VUP) is a State food research institution engaged not only in coordination and research activities, but also in food informatics, legislation, extension, education, project and training activities. The FRI coordinates monitoring of food contaminants within the Ministry of Agriculture inclusive of running the information system linked to the GEMS/Food; it represents the FAO Centre for Central and East European food databases (CEECFOODS) as well as the National Contact Point for the Codex Alimentarius FAO/WHO. The VUP, by means of national and international projects (Copernicus, Inco-Copernicus, FAO) is involved in research oriented at food chemistry, analyses, microbiology, food education, utilization of DNA-based methods, production and application of food additives, particular technological operations, optimization of technologies, as well as at nutrition modelling and complementation one of the largest food composition databases in the world. www.vup.sk. (Tomas Kuchta, Jana Petrikova)