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Food Scientists Are People, Too
Rare is the consumer-oriented article that focuses on a food scientist and not John or Jane Q. Shopper or a popular or heavily promoted book author. But that’s just what the Orlando Sentinel published on January 11—a food safety article focusing on the lunch choices made by IFT Food Science Communicator Jean Weese, Auburn University.

Like so many others around the country, Weese and her colleagues recently sat down to a meal while contemplating news of hepatitis A f…