Annual Meeting & FOOD EXPO® Preview—Packaging

As if to prove my point that packaging is indispensable to food science and technology, more than 120 papers and posters directly related to food packaging are scheduled for presentation at the Institute of Food Technologists’ Annual Meeting, June 15–19, 2002, in Anaheim, Calif.

Depending on how we apply statistics, food packaging represents 7.5 % of all the technical papers offered. Perhaps more amazing is that 23 different universities are represented. Two departments/schools of packaging, Mic…