Food-borne diseases caused by parasites have become one of the important factors affecting the food safety. Traditional etiology methods were often subject to the technical proficiency and identification ability of techinician.In addition, the detection efficiency can not be satisfied with the actual needs. Therefore, rapid and accurate detection is a trend to food-borne parasite diagnosis development. The research progress and its application of foodborne parasite detection with some modern detection techniques, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR), flinders technology associates (FTA), loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP), microarray (DNA chip) and colloidal gold immune chromato-graphy (GICA) technology, including their mechanisms, advantages and disadvantages is reviewed in this paper.