• IFT President-Elect Mary Schmidl, NFNC, and Jill Hollingsworth, Food Marketing Institute, recently discussed biotechnology and the IFT Annual Meeting and FOOD EXPO® with Gannett News Service. Schmidl predicted, correctly, that the discussion of genetically modified organisms at the Annual Meeting would not include demonstrators dressed as 8-foot Monarch butterflies. “We’re usually a quiet crowd. We welcome the opportunity to address the issues as professionals,” she said. Noting that “it is an…