MoniQA is an international and interdisciplinary network of professionals from institutions working in food research, regulatory bodies, and trade, providing solutions to promote a safer and secure food supply worldwide. MoniQA facilitates international research collaborations to enable services and products for food safety & quality assurance, progress and validation of analytical methods, training, and continuous professional development, consultancy, and socio-economic impact assessment. MoniQA Association was launched in 2011 as a result of a successful EU-funded Network of Excellence on Monitoring and Quality Assurance in the Total Food Supply Chain (MoniQA, 2007-2012). To achieve our mission: - We foster an international pool of experts with multidisciplinary expertise - We provide privileged information - We provide a portal for facilitating guidelines, protocols, links, and scientific publications - We offer membership to interested institutions in all countries - We participate in Technical Committees (ISO, CEN, Codex, etc.) - We organize training workshops, webinars, and educational courses - We organize scientific conferences and provide a platform for networking and cooperation - We conduct research and enable collaborative research projects, consortia, funds, project management services, and mobility and exchange programs - We provide Reference Materials and manage validation studies