The Global Role of IFT and Food Science

Early in my career, I undertook my first overseas business assignment to the Netherlands, and I recall that the world seemed like such a large place. But in the 30 years of crisscrossing the globe during many business trips, from Europe to South America and Asia, it began to seem that the world had magically shrunk.

In those early years, it often took six months for new scientific learning or issues to travel from the originating country, usually the United States, to another country, typically t…