Winter Doldrums Don’t Reflect Scientific Sizzle

The Institute of Food Technologists and the Food Science Communicators who represent it in news coverage are exceeding beyond projections the rate of inquiries from journalists for food science expertise. Compared to 2001, inquiries grew by 6.5% in 2002 and by 11% in the first half of 2003.

Now updated through mid-November, the pace of requests by journalists seeking IFT perspective remains noteworthy despite great media attention on the worldwide SARS scare, the war against Iraq, the resulting r…