Institute of Food Technologists
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Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: 312.782.8424
Fax: 312.782.8348
Email: info@ift.org


IFT Food & Beverage Cybrary®

The IFT Food & Beverage Cybrary®, powered by Chemidex® LLC, is the most powerful search engine in the industry and it's free to all IFT members. The IFT Cybrary brings together the biggest names in the food and beverage industry to accelerate the product development process.



Why use the IFT Cybrary?

The IFT Food & Beverage Cybrary allows you access to:

  • Key technical data sheets
  • Material safety data sheets (MSDS)
  • Starting point formulations
  • Corporate brochures and collateral information
  • Online sample requests 

The IFT Cybrary® also provide users the ability to communicate online directly with multiple ingredient suppliers, and conduct full text searches of articles from Food Technology magazine.

Who is Chemidex?

Chemidex LLC was founded in 1997 to accelerate technical and sales information exchange between raw material suppliers and formulators in the chemical industry. Chemidex became the first company in the marketplace with a web-based solution focused solely on this chemical information process “gap”.  Since its operational launch in 1999, Chemidex has applied its information exchange solution to multiple sectors of the industrial chemical sector, the cosmetics industry and the food & beverage industry.

Use of the Cybrary dramatically reduces a formulator’s time to locate chemical or food ingredients and simultaneously improves the speed and quality of a supplier’s response to that customer’s requests for information. The Cybrary also provides participating suppliers with timely insights into their prospects’ product development processes, facilitating and potentially shortening the sales process.

A membership-based service, Chemidex has registered members representing over 5000 industrial and consumer product companies operating in North America, Europe and Asia.







IFT Cybrary

What people are saying:

" . . . very helpful in aiding me on my quests for product and supplier information. The site has been a tremendously valuable resource.”

" . . . has been a tool that helped a lot in my search for suitable raw materials for the formulation of my final product."

". . .  I have never waited for more than one week to receive my sample request from the companies that you represent."

" . . . everything is indexed and quick to find, just like you say: at a 'Click of a button'."

" . . . after quickly finding more than 50 relevant documents, I continued to narrow this search with further keywords and was able to find suppliers and articles specific to our needs."