Plans are well underway toward opening an Office of Science, Communications, and Government Relations in the nation’s capitol by September 2000, as recommended by the IFT Task Force on Food Science in Washington and approved by the Executive Committee.
IFT’s government activities began with the Public Information Program, which was formed in 1973 to recognize IFT’s need to establish a positive link among the food science that forms the base of IFT, the media, and related societies. The Office of …