Features
MARY ELLEN KUHN
The 2011 IFT Annual Meeting & Food Expo® was easily the year’s most outstanding opportunity for exploring new products, exchanging ideas, and acquiring fresh scientific insights.
A. ELIZABETH SLOAN
If discussions, presentations, and exhibits at IFT’s Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New Orleans are an indication of things to come, then consumers are going to be a healthier and happier bunch.
BOB SWIENTEK
Four companies demonstrate practical advancements in packaging, food safety, sanitation, and shortening products.
DONALD E. PSZCZOLA
Traditional formulation strategies—whether they involve alternative sweeteners, salt replacers, or systems to reduce saturated fat—are finding new energy and direction in a wide variety of previously unexplored ways.
KAREN NACHAY
Ingredient suppliers exhibited new and innovative ingredients with plenty of functional benefits to help formulators develop foods and beverages that meet consumer demands.
LINDA MILO OHR
From new protein sources to innovative sodium reduction technologies, ingredient companies put health in the spotlight at the Annual Meeting & Food Expo.
NEIL H. MERMELSTEIN
IFT’s 2011 Food Expo featured a wide variety of exhibits on all aspects of the food industry. Here are brief descriptions of many of the exhibits related to food safety and quality.
J. PETER CLARK
New equipment options and valuable poster sessions make for an informative 2011 Annual Meeting & Food Expo.
AARON L. BRODY
Sessions, posters, and exhibits at the 2011 Annual Meeting & Food Expo target important issues and address industry needs.
Rosetta Newsome
A review and analysis of the scientific literature on the safety of food-related nanoscale materials found that there is a need for a minimum set of physicochemical parameters to characterize test materials, a method to assess the quality and reliability of the studies, and further food- and health-related research.