Media Continue Interest in Food Science

The pace of the news placements in 2006 has been fast, and IFT members should rest assured that topics involving food science are of keen interest to the news media and will likely continue that way for the foreseeable future.

For example, avian flu—a food-related issue only indirectly—will assure this, as bovine spongiform encephalopathy—"mad cow disease)"—did with its reappearance last month in a 10-year-old Alabama cow.

As he did in late 2004, when mad cow first hit the American market, Dean Cl…