The Institute was founded in 2000. Such a reorganization was carried out before the accreditation of the VMF study programs in March 2001. The Institute of Food and Environmental Hygiene specializes in the fields of Infectious Diseases and Food Hygiene. From the moment of its foundation until 2014, its director was assoc. professor, Dr.med.vet. Edgars Liepiņš. From 2014 to 2019, the Institute was headed by professor, Dr.med.vet. Kaspars Kovaļenko, but since 2019, the director of the Institute of Food and Environmental Hygiene has been assoc. professor Margarita Terentjeva.