[1] Based in Reading, IFIS produces the online bibliographic database, FSTA, a resource which the company has offered since 1969.

As a not-for-profit organisation and educational charity, IFIS: IFIS work with a global network of regulatory experts in their Meet the Partners tool,[5] and they produce Escalex Limits News and Alerts, a curated news and alerts service for legal developments in food.

FSTA is a bibliographic abstracting and indexing (A&I) database for scientific and technological information relating to food, beverages, and nutrition.

It contains over 1.5 million indexed records, with full-text links where available, covering over 5,475 active and historical journals, books, trade publications, reviews, conference proceedings, reports, patents, and standards.

The database is updated weekly with all records indexed against IFIS' thesaurus, containing over 13,000 food science keywords, curated and structured into hierarchies.