JFS Editorial Board

• Casimir C. Akoh, PhD, CFS; University of Georgia, USA
• Bradley Bolling, PhD; University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA 
• Mario Estévez, PhD; University of Extremadura Ciencias, Spain
• Kristen Gibson, PhD; University of Arkansas, USA
• Jung H. Han, PhD, CFS; UNLIMEAT, USA
• Joan M. King, PhD; Louisiana State University, USA
• Hosahalli Ramaswamy, PhD; McGill University, Canada
• Dojin Ryu, PhD, CFS; University of Missouri, USA
• Beverly Tepper, PhD; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA
• Kequan (Kevin) Zhou, PhD; Wayne State University, USA

• Muhammad Hussein Alu'Datt, PhD; Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
• Kanishka Bhunia, PhD; Indian Institute of Technology, India
• Gail Bornhorst, PhD; University of California, Davis, USA
• Keith R. Cadwallader, PhD; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Kristi M. Crowe-White, PhD, RD; The University of Alabama, USA
• Robin Dando, PhD; Cornell University, USA
• Riëtte de Kock, PhD; University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Willis Fedio, PhD; New Mexico State University, USA
• Mansel W. Griffiths, PhD; University of Guelph, Canada 
• Dallas G. Hoover, PhD, CFS; University of Delaware, USA
• Hong-Sik Hwang, PhD; USDA ARS, USA
• Pu Jing, PhD; Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Soojin Jun, PhD; University of Hawaii, USA
• Mun Y. Jung, PhD; Woosuk University, Korea 
• Russell Keast, PhD, CFS; Deakin University, Victoria, Australia 
• Oi-Ming Lai, PhD; Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia 
• Youngsoo Lee, PhD; Washington State University, USA
• Yonghui Li, PhD; Kansas State University, USA
• José A. Lopes da Silva, PhD; University of Aveiro, Portugal 
• Xiaonan Lu, PhD; McGill University, Canada
• Enrique Palou, PhD; Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico
• Guillermo Petzold, PhD; Universidad del Bío-Bío, Chile
• Carolyn Ross, PhD; Washington State University, USA 
• Denis Roy, PhD; Université Laval, Canada 
• Nagendra Shah, PhD, CFS; The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
• Girdhari Sharma, PhD; US FDA, USA
• Denise I. Skonberg, PhD; University of Maine, USA
• Sherry A. Tanumihardjo, PhD; University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
• Rohan Tikekar, PhD; University of Maryland, USA
• Ewen C.D. Todd, PhD, CFS; Michigan State University, USA
• Yi Wang, Zhejiang University, China
• Jorge Welti-Chanes, PhD; Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México 
• Hang Xiao, PhD; University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
• Zhimin Xu, PhD; Louisiana State University Ag Center, USA
• Gow-Chin Yen, PhD, CFS; National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan 
• Fatih Yildiz, PhD, CFS; Middle East Technical University, Turkey

• Oluwafemi Adebo, PhD; University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Diana Ansorena, PhD; Universidad de Navarra, Spain
• Antonietta Baiano, PhD; Università di Foggia, Italy
• Soottawat Benjakul, PhD; Prince of Songkla University, Thailand 
• Dawn Bohn, PhD; University of Illinois, USA
• Terri Boylston, PhD; Iowa State University, USA
• Ziynet Boz, PhD; University of Florida, USA
• Frederick Breidt, Jr., PhD; USDA-ARS, USA 
• Xu-Liang Cao, PhD; Health Canada
• Ozan Ciftci, PhD; University of Nebraska- Lincoln, USA
• Dennis Cladis, PhD; Virginia Tech, USA
• Harold Corke, PhD; Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology, China
• Maria Corradini, PhD; University of Guelph, Canada 
• Adriano Gomes da Cruz, PhD; Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Chiara Dall'Asta, PdD; University of Parma, Italy
• MaryAnne Drake, PhD; North Carolina State University, USA 
• Doris D'Souza, PhD; University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA 
• Indika Edirisinghe, PhD; Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Dan Gallaher, PhD; University of Minnesota, USA
• Girish Ganjyal, PhD; Washington State University, USA 
• Carmen Gomes, PhD; Iowa State University, USA 
• Elizabeth Grasso-Kelley, PhD; US FDA, USA
• Kacie Ho, PhD; University of Hawai'i, USA
• Jiang Jiang, PhD; Jiangnan University, China
• Michael Joseph, PhD; North Carolina State University, USA
• Byung Hee Kim, PhD; Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea
• Baohua Kong, PhD; Northeast Agricultural University, China 
• Jacob Lahne, PhD; Virginia Tech, USA
• Yanhong Liu, PhD; USDA ARS, ERRC, USA
• Yangchao Luo, PhD; Connecticut University of Connecticut, USA
• Isabel Mafra, PhD; Universidade do Porto, Portugal
• Ioanna Mandala, PhD; University of Athens, Greece
• Guiomar Melgar-Lalanne, PhD; University of Veracruz, México
• Roopesh Mohandas, PhD; University of Alberta, Canada 
• Azlin Mustapha, PhD; University of Missouri, USA
• Pradeep Singh Negi, PhD; CSIR- Central Food Technological Research Institute, India 
• Keshavan Niranjan, PhD; University of Reading, UK
• Vânia Pinto, PhD; Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
• Aman Sandhu, PhD; Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
• Shelly Schmidt, PhD; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Han-Seok Seo, PhD; University of Arkansas, USA
• Fereidoon Shahidi, PhD; Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada 
• Clint Stevenson, PhD; North Carolina State University, USA
• María Amparo Tárrega Guillem, PhD; IATA-CSIC, Spain
• Wenfei Tian, PhD; Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
• Valentina Trinetta, PhD; Kansas State University, USA
• Ruican Wang, PhD; Nankai University, China
• Zanhui Wang, PhD; China Agricultural University, China
• Yannick Weesepoel, PhD; Wageningen University, The Netherlands
• Zhilong Yu, PhD; Jiangnan University, China
• Guanghua Zhao, PhD; China Agricultural University, China 
• Jing Zhao, PhD; California State University, USA
• Qixin Zhong, PhD; University of Tennessee, USA

• Concise Reviews and Hypotheses in Food Science
• New Horizons in Food Research
• Integrated Food Science
• Food Chemistry
• Food Engineering, Materials Science, and Nanotechnology
• Food Microbiology and Safety
• Sensory and Consumer Sciences
• Health, Nutrition, and Food
• Toxicology and Chemical Food Safety
• Food Science Education

• Christie Tarantino-Dean, FASAE, CAE; CEO and Publisher 
• Bryan Hitchcock, Chief Science & Technology Officer
• Amanda Ferguson, Director, IFT Scientific Journals
• Andrew Kiefer, Editorial Coordinator

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