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Research Summits
Research Summits identify needs for further research by facilitating in-depth exchange of information among world-renowned investigators and other scientists conducting basic and applied research.
Food Packaging Innovations: The Science, Current Research and Future Research Needs May 7-9, 2006
This fifth Research Summit appealed to participants to identify resesarch needs and provide a roadmap for the future of food packaging. Scientists and scholars made 10 presentations during four scientific sessions.
Session 1: Food Quality and Safety Needs
Food Quality and Shelf Life Joe Hotchkiss, Cornell Univ.
Food Quality & Safety Needs: Food Safety Aspects Per Nielsen, Ph.D., Technical Univ. of Denmark
Food Packaging Regulations Sara Risch, Michigan State Univ. School of Packaging
Session 2: Materials Science and Technologies
Polymer-Based Nanocomposites: Opportunities Relevant to Packaging Evangelos Manias, Pennsylvania State Univ.
Bio-Based Nanocomposite Materials for a Sustainable Future in Packaging Amar Mohanty, Michigan State Univ. School of Packaging
State of the Art of Active/Intelligent Food Packaging Aaron Brody, Ph.D., Brody, Inc.
Session 3: Sensing Technologies
Sensing Technologies for Microbial Detection / Safety Joseph Irudayaraj, Purdue Univ.
Nano Bio Sensors & Integrated Microsystems for Intelligent Food Packaging Mahadevan Iyer, Georgia Institute of Technol.
Session 4: Packaging in the Future
Packaging and Our Food System in the Future John Floros, Pennsylvania State University
Reflection On & Integration of All Topics Sara Risch, Michigan State University School of Packaging
Food Defense Pertaining to Potential Intentional Contamination (April 3-5, 2005)
- IFT's fourth Research Summit brought together world-renowned scientists toidentify the means by which to address the issue of fooddefense. Summit participants addressed actions needed to advance the understanding of how to determine what has happened and what agent was involved in the event, the appropriate course of action to protect the public and food workers, and the optimum approach to managing the recovery process.
Food Defense Summit Presentations (Power Point):
Food Safety and Defense: Capabilities and Challenges Craig Hedberg, Univ. of Minnesota
Sampling and Detection of Chemical and Radiological Contaminants James Coughlin, Coughlin & Associates
Novel approaches for Detection and Characterization of Foodborne Pathogens Thomas Cebula, Food and Drug Administration
The DoD Combat Feeding Program & Lessons Learned From Protecting Operational Rations Gerry Darsch, U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center
Chemical Clean Up: Experience and Strategies Marcus Cooke, Cooke Companies Intl.
Biological Agents and Factors Affecting Decontamination Bruce Cords, Ecolab, Inc.
Guidelines for Disposal and Decontamination Michelle Catlin, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Managing the Clean-Up and Decontamination Process for Intentionally Contaminated Food Donald Schaffner, Rutgers University
Managing the Communications Process David Schmidt, International Food Information Council
The Obesity Conundrum-Is there a Food Solution (February 2004)
- IFT's third Research Summit brought together world-renowned scientists to identify the means by which to solve the problem of obesity -- arguably the most pressing public health problem in this country. Summit participants addressed actions needed to advance the understanding of biological and physiological mechanisms affecting appetite, satiety, long-term eating behavior, energy balance vs.imbalance, and food-related solutions to the obesity epidemic.
Obesity Summit Presentations:
The Worldwide Epidemic of Overweight and Obesity-Environmental Causes and Control Claude Bouchard
Behaviorial Influences on What We Eat Ricardo Uauy
Freedom to React!
- Van Hubbard
ObesityConundrumOne: Is There Evidence That a Food Solution Can ImpactOverweightThrough Biological Mechanisms: Appetite, Satiety, and EnergyBalance Stephen C. Woods
Are there Nutrients and Hormones that Alter Daily Food Intake as well as Body Weight and Obesity Henry Koopmans
Obesity Conundrum Two: Can a Food Solution Influence Long-Term Eating Behavior Adam Drewnowski
The Role of the Media in Influencing Healthy Lifestyles Sylvia Rowe
- Kinetic Models for Microbial Survival During Processing (August 2003)
- During IFT's Second Research Summit, forty scientists met to advance the stateof understanding of microbial inactivation kinetics and models fornon-log-linear survivor curves.
- Dormant Microbes: Research Needs (June 2003)
- IFT's Inaugural Research Summit explored research needs for the physiology of bacterial spores and other dormant microbes, rapid quantitative measurement methods, and advanced techniques for evaluating microbial viability.
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