Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
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The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is a branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration responsible for ensuring the safety and proper labeling of food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition canonical | 4 |
| CFSAN | 2 |
| https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/center-food-safety-and-applied-nutrition-cfsan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T686647 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Context triple: [Food and Drug Administration, hasDivision, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition]
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A.
Department of Nutrition
The Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is a leading academic and research center focused on the role of diet and nutrition in public health, chronic disease prevention, and global health policy.
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B.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
The Food Safety and Inspection Service is a U.S. federal agency responsible for ensuring the safety, wholesomeness, and proper labeling of meat, poultry, and certain egg products.
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C.
Linus Pauling Institute
The Linus Pauling Institute is a research center at Oregon State University focused on the roles of vitamins, minerals, and other micronutrients in promoting health and preventing disease.
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D.
Food and Nutrition Service
The Food and Nutrition Service is a U.S. federal agency that administers national food assistance and nutrition programs such as SNAP and school meals to improve food security and dietary health.
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E.
Department of Food Control
The Department of Food Control is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine that focuses on the safety, quality, and regulation of food of animal origin.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Target entity description: The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is a branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration responsible for ensuring the safety and proper labeling of food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.
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A.
Department of Nutrition
The Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is a leading academic and research center focused on the role of diet and nutrition in public health, chronic disease prevention, and global health policy.
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B.
Food Safety and Inspection Service
The Food Safety and Inspection Service is a U.S. federal agency responsible for ensuring the safety, wholesomeness, and proper labeling of meat, poultry, and certain egg products.
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C.
Linus Pauling Institute
The Linus Pauling Institute is a research center at Oregon State University focused on the roles of vitamins, minerals, and other micronutrients in promoting health and preventing disease.
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D.
Food and Nutrition Service
The Food and Nutrition Service is a U.S. federal agency that administers national food assistance and nutrition programs such as SNAP and school meals to improve food security and dietary health.
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E.
Department of Food Control
The Department of Food Control is an academic unit within Cairo University's Faculty of Veterinary Medicine that focuses on the safety, quality, and regulation of food of animal origin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. federal government agency component
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center ⓘ regulatory body ⓘ |
| abbreviation |
CFSAN
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linked to:
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
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| alsoKnownAs | FDA CFSAN ⓘ |
| appliesRegulationTo |
bottled water
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color additives in food ⓘ cosmetic color additives ⓘ cosmetics ⓘ dietary supplements ⓘ food ⓘ food additives ⓘ food contact substances ⓘ infant formula ⓘ medical foods ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Food and Drug Administration ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
GRAS determinations
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biotechnology in food ⓘ chemical safety of foods ⓘ contaminants in food ⓘ cosmetic labeling ⓘ cosmetic safety ⓘ dietary exposure assessment ⓘ dietary guidance ⓘ dietary supplement labeling ⓘ dietary supplements ⓘ food additives ⓘ food allergen labeling ⓘ food allergen regulation ⓘ food contact substances ⓘ food defense ⓘ food labeling ⓘ food safety ⓘ food safety education ⓘ foodborne illness prevention ⓘ foodborne outbreak response ⓘ health claims on foods ⓘ infant formula regulation ⓘ menu and vending machine labeling ⓘ microbiological safety of foods ⓘ nutrition ⓘ nutrition facts labeling ⓘ nutrition policy ⓘ produce safety ⓘ risk assessment ⓘ seafood safety ⓘ toxicology ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
College Park, Maryland
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United States of America ⓘ |
| industry |
food safety
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public health ⓘ regulation of cosmetics ⓘ regulation of dietary supplements ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States federal government
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linked to:
United States government
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| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Maryland ⓘ |
| mission |
to ensure that food is safe, sanitary, wholesome, and honestly labeled
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to ensure the safety and proper labeling of cosmetics ⓘ to ensure the safety and proper labeling of dietary supplements ⓘ to protect public health by ensuring the safety of the U.S. food supply ⓘ |
| parentOrganization |
Food and Drug Administration
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ⓘ |
| partOf | Food and Drug Administration ⓘ |
| website |
https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/center-food-safety-and-applied-nutrition-cfsan
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linked to:
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Description of subject: The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is a branch of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration responsible for ensuring the safety and proper labeling of food, dietary supplements, and cosmetics.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
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website
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https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/fda-organization/center-food-safety-and-applied-nutrition-cfsan
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linked to: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
linked to: Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition