Based in Reading, UK, IFIS is a not-for-profit academic publishing organisation with an ongoing commitment to learning and development, and a reputation for scientific integrity, accuracy, and excellence.

IFIS produce FSTA®, also known as FSTA® - Food Science and Technology Abstracts, an extensive and specialist food science 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 fields.

While FSTA® is renowned as a food science and technology database, its content covers a broad spectrum of disciplines relevant to the academic, corporate, and governmental markets - from agriculture, nutrition, and microbiology through to food processing, safety, and economics.