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Undergraduate Food Safety Studies at Cornell: Undergraduates interested in training in food safety typically apply to and enroll in the undergraduate major inFood Scienceat in Food Science at Cornell. While there is no desifnated designated "Food Safety" major at Cornell, this program provides for outstanding food safety training with a number of food safety, epidemiology and microbiology classes that provide eduction related to to food safety available to students. in In addition, undergrduates undergraduates have outstanding opportunities available to perform food safety research at Cornell during the semester and during the summer. Noteworthy  
Noteworthy individuals who obtained undergraduate degrees in food science from Cornell University and pursued sucessful careers in food safety include Proefessor Don Schaffner (Rutgers), Professor Kathryn Boor (Cornell University, currently Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell). 

Graduate Studies in Food Safety at Cornell: Graduate studenst intersted in traiuning in food safety typically apply to and enroll in MS or PhD programs in the Graduate Field of Food Science and Technology; some grduate stduenst graduate stduents also choose to major in teh Grduates the Graduate Fields of "Comparative Biomedicals Sciences" (this major is particuarly appropriate for students interested in pre-harvest food saftey safety of aniamlanimal-based foods) or "Microbiology".
Noteworthy individuals who obtained undergraduate degrees in food science from Cornell University and pursued sucessful careers in food safety include  include Kendra Nightingale (Assistant Professor at Colorado State University), Francisco Diez-Gonzalez (Associate Professor, University of Minnesota).