Advancing Food Science Globally—The IFT-CIFST Partnership

For more than a decade, IFT and the Chinese Institute of Food Science and Technology (CIFST) have worked together to build bridges between food scientists and government officials in the United States, China, and around the world. This collaboration began with informal meetings about how the two organizations could work together to increase the exchange of information among food scientists and has grown to include a biennial meeting and a joint publication.

The joint publication, Global Food Indu…