Looking Back and Ahead

The past nine months have been a whirlwind of excitement in Washington, D.C. The country has a new President, and IFT has an office in our nation’s capital. Like so many other scientific societies, including the American Chemical Society and the American Society for Microbiology, IFT is now positioned literally and figuratively in the center of the institutions and organizations that make and influence public policy. With food safety and nutrition and health issues appearing regularly in the new…