DIANOVA Ltd – DTU (Technical University of Denmark) was founded in 2008 as a limited company and is owned by the Technical University of Denmark. DIANOVA implements all commercial assignments on behalf of the DTU National Food Institute and the DTU National Veterinary Institute. Using experts from the DTU Institutes and the Danish Food Administration, DIANOVA offers consultancy and advisory services, risk assessment and courses covering the "Farm to Fork" principle, besides diagnostic examinations, laboratory analyses and distribution of vaccines and sera. The DTU Institutes are responsible for the Danish emergency preparedness and advice to authorities regarding food safety, toxicological risk assessments in environmental exposure, human nutrition and dietary diseases, veterinary epidemiology, diagnostics and infectious diseases in animals.

The DTU Institutes are the EU Community Reference Laboratory (CRL) regarding surveillance and control of Antimicrobial Resistance in Food borne Pathogens, Fish Diseases (OIE-laboratory), Pesticides in Cereals and Feeding stuffs, EFSA Collaborating Centre for Surveillance of Zoonoses, WHO Collaborating Centre for Food Contaminants Monitoring (GEMS Food) and Antimicrobial Resistance in Food borne Pathogens. Since 1992 DTU VET has been the National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza in Denmark. The Institutes are National Reference Laboratories in Food analyses, Residues of Veterinary Drugs, Chemical contaminants in Food products, GMO, Hormone disturbing substances, Algal toxins, Microbiological and Viral contamination of bivalvular shellfish, Zoonoses, Serological analyses, Infectious diseases and Exotic viruses in animals.

DTU experts participate in international cooperation, such as WHO, CODEX, OIE, EFSA, EU, FAO, IDF, CEN and ISO. DIANOVA and its Institutes have organised workshops and courses, among others on Zoonoses and Microbiological Criteria within the Better Training for Safer Food programme in 2007-08, WHO Global Salmonella Surveillance (several annual courses all over the world), WHO GEMS workshops on chemical food safety in new EU member or candidate countries and EU-Twinning projects preparing EU candidates for membership or reforming food legislation in 3 countries.