Recent Updates
Déjà Vu and Some Things New in the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines
Former USDA nutrition policy leader and senior executive Robert Post reflects on the new national diet and nutrition guidance.
Coloring Outside the Lines
Dialogue author Arlin Wasserman encourages the food industry to avoid getting defensive in response to the MAHA movement and instead to celebrate the positive steps food companies have taken to replace artificial ingredients in food formulations.
What’s on the Menu for 2026?
From tech-enhanced food safety to AI’s food innovation takeover, the IFT Science and Policy Initiatives team forecast the top five trends that will help shape the global food system in 2026 and beyond.
Defining Ultra-Processed Foods
IFT calls for science-based definitions that focus on nutritional quality, not the degree of processing, to guide future food policy.
EP 69: UPFs and the Question of Hyper-Palatability, Revisiting Reusable Packaging
Get the latest insights from the food science and technology community in the October 2025 episodes of the Omnivore podcast.
The IFT Community Discusses the MAHA Strategy Report
The food science community stressed that the MAHA strategy must be guided by current, high-quality science and clearer action steps to truly improve public health.
Can Food Really Heal?
Clinical trials show promise, but uneven results and fragile funding threaten the future of Food as Medicine programs.
Can Food and Medicine Make It Work This Time?
Arlin Wasserman offers a humorous take on the complicated relationship between food and health—and health care.
Tariffs and Trade Policy Pose Ongoing Risks
At IFT FIRST’s Solutions Showcase, experts detailed how tariffs are reshaping supply chains, raising costs, and challenging food companies to stay transparent and flexible.
Policy Changes Put Food Innovation Pipelines to the Test
At IFT FIRST’s Hot Topics Studio, experts outlined how GRAS scrutiny, post-market surveillance, and state actions are reshaping product development.
