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Issue 19             

July 2015   

ANNUAL REPORT OF RESEARCH NOW AVAILABLE 


 

Each year, IFSH's National Center for Food Safety and Technology publishes the Annual Report of Research (ARR) exclusively for IFSH members... More 

  

MEETINGS AND EVENTS

Click here to view the current list of 
IFSH Events!
 
TECHNICAL CONNECTIONS MEETINGS

Our second quarterly Technical Connections Meeting (TCM) highlighted IFSH's Microbiology projects for members and stakeholders on June 10, 2015 from 10 am to 11:30 am (CST)... More 
 

NEW MEMBERS

IFSH welcomes Millisecond Technology (MST)!.. More


NEW STAFF


 

IFSH welcomes four new FDA ORISE Fellows!

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IFSH ON THE ROAD AND IN THE PRESS

 

Produce Bioactives: The Health Benefits of Color 

(June 10) Britt Burton Freeman, Ph.D., Director of IFSH's Center for Nutrition Research, presented Produce Bioactives: The Health Benefits of Color... More 

 

Novel Technologies for Commercial Shelf-Stability

(May 22) Alvin Lee, Ph.D., Director of IFSH's Center for Processing Innovation, presented Novel Technologies for Commercial Shelf-Stability in a Clean Label Technologies session... More  
 
Genome Sequencing Making Inroads and Could Play Role in FSMA
(May 15) Robert Brackett, Ph.D., IIT Vice President and IFSH Director, was featured in an article by Food Quality News by Joe Whitworth... More 

The Role Tomato Products Play in Health and Disease Risk Reduction

(May 6) IFSH Nutrition Research and ConAgra Foods "looked at the current research to discover the role tomato products play in health and disease risk reduction."... More 

 

The Difference Between "Use-by," "Sell-by," and "Best-by" Dates

(April 15) "Confusion over date labeling leads to billions of pounds of food waste every year."... More

The 9 Foods Most Likely To Make You Sick

(April 14) Robert Brackett, Ph.D., IIT Vice President and IFSH Director, was featured in an article by MSN Health & Fitness... More  

ALLIANCE UPDATES

FOOD SAFETY PREVENTIVE CONTROL ALLIANCE

The Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) held curriculum pilot sessions in April (Rockville, MD), May (Vancouver, WA) and June (Chicago, IL). FSPCA also held webinars to University Extension Administrators and Specialists (April 30, May 20), as well as the June quarter FSPCA update webinar (June 24). A face-to-face FSPCA Steering Committee meeting was held in May in Washington DC. In addition... More 

 

SPROUT SAFETY ALLIANCE 

 

The Sprout Safety Alliance (SSA) hosted a FDA webinar "Implementing the Produce Rule" on May 22, 2015. Dr. Kaiping Deng gave a brief overview of the alliance in the webinar and the FDA presentation was given by Ms. Fazila Shakier who is a Co-lead of Phase Two FSMA Produce Implementation Workgroup, Division of Produce Safety in CFSAN/FDA... More 

IFSH SEMINAR SERIES
For a complete list of the semimars with speaker biosketches and abstracts click here. 

May 14: "Utilizing Predictive Modeling in the Risk Assessment of Fresh Produce" by Dr. Joelle Salazar

April 2: "No metal in the microwave and more microwave myths and misconceptions" by Dr. Greg Fleischman 

EDUCATION UPDATES

 

The Sixth Annual IFSH Graduate Student Seminar Competition

The Sixth Annual IFSH Graduate Student Seminar Competition was held April 22 - 23, 2015. The competition was officially opened by Dr. Robert Brackett, IIT Vice President and IFSH Director, and Dr. Mary Lou Tortorello, Chief, Food Technology Branch of the Division of Food Processing Science and Technology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The event was a great success and all of our Food Science and Nutrition (FdSN) FST/FPE Graduate students worked very hard and did a fantastic job!.. More 

 

 

 

FALL 2015 Courses Announced for Department of Food Science and Nutrition  


The IIT Department of Food Science and Nutrition will be offering the following courses for the Fall 2015 Semester 
(August 24 - December 5)... More
Illinois Institute of Technology's (IIT) Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH) is a one-of-a-kind applied food science research institute that provides stakeholders in government, industry and academia the opportunity to develop and exchange knowledge and expertise to address key issues in food safety, food defense and nutrition. Located at IIT's Moffett Campus in Bedford Park, IL, IFSH is also home to the FDA CFSAN Division of Food Processing Science and Technology. 
For more, visit www.iit.edu/ifsh