The International Academy of Food Science and Technology: 2010 Election of New Fellows
August 2010

43rd Annual Conference of the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology
August 2010

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42nd Annual Conference of the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology

Report on the Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA) April 19-25, 2008, Beijing, China
The 40th Session of the CCFA was hosted by the Government of China and was chaired by Dr. Junshi Chen. The session was attended by about 250 participants from 61 Codex member countries, the European Commission, 28 international non-governmental organizations, and Codex Secretariat staff.

Book Review: Sustainable Development at Risk Ignoring the Past
This book is about sustainable development in the context of improving the plight of third world nations, i.e. the main challenge being to alleviate extreme poverty while protecting the environment and conserving critical resources.

India confers Padma Shri on Canadian food scientist
Canadian biochemist, Joseph H. Hulse, one of the world’s leading experts in biotechnology and a former Vice-President of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), will be honoured this year with a Padma Shri award, at a ceremony to be held at Rashtrapati Bhawan on May 5th.

IAFoST and Newly Elected Fellows 2008

Australia: AIFST Celebrates 40th Anniversary
The Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology (AIFST), one of the 20 founding Adhering Bodies of IUFoST, recently held its 40th Anniversary Convention. A brief history of the formation of AIFST, its strong links with IUFoST and IFT, and some highlights of the latest convention, are outlined...

Slovenia: Slovenia hosts IUFoST Governing Council Meeting and Food and Nutrition Congress
The spa town of Radenci, about 2.5 hours drive north-east of Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana, and close to both the Austrian and Hungarian borders, recently was the location of a meeting of the Governing Council of the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST), as well as the Slovenian Nutrition Society’s 3rd Slovenian Congress of Food and Nutrition, with the theme ‘Food Processing – Innovation – Nutrition – Healthy Consumers’ [3. Kongres SPD: Tehnologija – Inovacije – Prehrana – Zdrari Potrosniki].

Using Food Science and Technology to Improve Nutrition and Promote National Development
To show through the use of case studies how the application of food science and technology has improved nutrition and promoted national development in developing countries.

South Africa: SAAFoST Northern Branch Lecture
World cereal grain production now exceeds 2 billion tons a year, which should provide in excess of 300 kg for each person on the planet; more than enough for everyone, with plenty to spare for other purposes. The scourge of obesity shows clearly that many people are getting more than what is good for them. At the same time, across sub-Saharan Africa there is chronic under-nutrition. Where are we going wrong?

New Zealand: Unit Operations in Food Processing
A unique New Zealand partnership between Professors Dick and Mary Earle, Chris Newey of FoodWorks, and the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology (NZIFST), has enabled Dick Earle's 1966 Unit Operations in Food Processing text to be made available free on the Internet to food technology students and industry throughout the world.

Kenya: Street Foods Are Here to Stay: Let's Support Street Food Vending
There have recently been some concerns raised in Kenya about the safety of street foods. This has led to a number of articles printed in the daily newspapers with alarming titles such as 'Roadside Foods Risky'. Some of these articles have been extremely informative, cautioning the public on the dangers of street foods. However, they have focused mainly on the negative (or potentially negative) repercussions of street foods. It is true that street foods can be potential vehicles for life-threatening food-borne illnesses. However, the reality is that street foods are here to stay, as more and more people – not only the poor – demand convenient foods. Furthermore, for urban cities in developing countries like Nairobi, there are increasingly more unemployed people who must resort to street food vending to earn an otherwise elusive income.

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