Official Post-Show Coverage

More than 20,700 gathered in Chicago for this year’s IFT Annual Meeting + Food Expo.The Institute of Food Technologists’ 2003 Annual Meeting + Food Expo®, held in Chicago, Ill., on June 12–16, attracted 20,707 attendees—more than 2,500 over last year’s attendance and the second-largest attendance in IFT’s 63-year history.

This year’s event featured 1,739 technical presentations and 999 exhibiting companies, 100 of them exhibiting for the first time this year, as well as numerous meetings, short c…