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Old News Is Good News
This column features monthly the efforts of members of the Institute of Food Technologists who speak to journalists on topical food issues of the day, helping to drive content in news outlets and, most important, providing scientific perspective to the facts, fallacies, and assumptions that can permeate food news coverage.

It is the nature of news media to provide immediacy with their coverage. Unfortunately, comprehensive monitoring of the news media for successful placemen…