THE Department of Science and Technology (DoST), through the Saganang Pagkain Para sa Lahat or Sapat Program of the DoST-National Research Council of the Philippines' National Integrated Basic Research Agenda, implemented a research program called Fresh Farms or Food Risk and Safety Analysis in Agricultural Farms. This aims to improve the control strategies for food safety to ensure that the food from farms are free from any contaminations.

Divided into three project components, Fresh Farms aims to detect parasites, potentially harmful bacteria and heavy metals from Fresh Farm produce and environmental samples in select farms in the provinces of Laguna and Quezon.