In July 2003, the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) hosted a roundtable on “Food Waste Management and Value-added Products” at the 12th World Congress of Food Science and Technology in Chicago, Ill., sponsored by the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST). Proceedings from that roundtable were subsequently published by IFT as a concise review in science (IFT/IUFoST, 2004). These proceedings contained a host of valuable information on approaches to identifying opportuniti…