The remit of the Danish Centre for Food and Agriculture (DCA), Aarhus University (AU), includes research-based risk assessments in the field of feed safety. The DCA provides research-based consultancy and solutions including risk assessments to be used by the MFAF, the Danish Agricultural Agency and the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration as the basis for regulation and legislative work. The DCA cooperates with the DCE to fulfil tasks, i.e. for the MFAF in areas in which their different kinds of expertise are supplementary.

The area of work of the DCA includes:

• Livestock: production systems and management, breeding, health, welfare, feeding and feed safety, cloning, GMOs
• Food quality: quality assurance, production systems, supply, processing, storage, nutrition, exposure assessment, nanotechnology
• Plant health: plant protection products, including efficacy testing and evaluation
• Plants: production management, breeding, biotechnology, climatology, agroecology
• Interactions among climate, soil, plants, animals and humans in agricultural systems
• Organic farming.