Established in 1969, IFIS is a leading international provider of food, beverage and nutrition information.

IFIS produces FSTA^®, also known as FSTA - Food Science & Technology Abstracts^®, an extensive specialist database of carefully selected content, which is collated, summarised and indexed for efficient searching. The database is used by researchers, industry practitioners and students around the world, to keep up-to-date with new findings in their field.

To provide high quality information to the global food community, IFIS works with EBSCO, IHS, Proquest, STN, Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer Health.

As a not-for-profit charitable organisation, IFIS is committed to improving knowledge, offering access to researchers in developing countries through the Research4Life programmes, HINARI and AGORA.