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Upcoming Events 
February 20 Chocolate & Wine
March 19 Xtreme Trampoline
Dinner Meetings
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Pictures from February 10, 2014 Dinner Meeting
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John Chambers, Chair, Michael Jacobson, Speaker, & John Budin, Chair Elect
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CSIFT Moves to IFT Unified Membership
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On July 12, 2013 the IFT Board of Directors passed a motion to unify IFT membership. The Chicago Section IFT is leading the way by implementing unified membership for our Section beginning in September 2013. For more information, visit the CSIFT Membership page. For questions contact the CSIFT Business Office at 630-916-4960 or Members@ChicagoIFT.org.
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Marketing Committee Looking for Volunteers
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The Chicago Section IFT has opportunities for individuals that would like to volunteer to work with various aspects of the Chicago Section IFT.
 We are looking for assistance in specific areas that include: Sponsorship, Website, editing the Food Bytes Newsletter, Social Media, and interfacing between the Marketing Committee along with other key committees such as the Membership and New Professionals.
This is also an opportunity to advance your career! If interested or if you have any questions please reach out to Denise Michalik, Katie Schmidt, and/or Sheila Rice, see contact details below.
Sheila Rice
Chair Sponsorships
Phone: 630-267-6653
Email: srice@penford.com
Katie Schmidt
Chair Social Media
Phone: 639-290-1763
Email: katie@dempseycorporation.com
Denise Michalik
Chair CSIFT Marketing Committee
Cell: 616-516-8285
Email: denmich16@gmail.com
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Have you joined the CSIFT LinkedIn groups yet?
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We are now a "Live Open Group!"
Our OPEN LinkedIn group simply requires you press the request to join button.
- Do you have a hot topic happening in the industry that you would like to learn more about and have an open discussion?
- Would you like to build your network?
- Do you want to stay up to date with the CSIFT and IFT events and happenings?
- Would you like to learn about special promotions and savings offered to CSIFT members to IFT industry events?
It's all there for you! Send your request to join today! See you there!
Any questions or inquiries please reach out to Katie Schmidt or myself.
PS... We are working with IFT to develop a LinkedIn Webinar that will be available to all CSIFT members on the IFT Career Center Professional Development website. Stay tuned!
Denise Michalik
Chair Marketing Committee
Denmich16@gmail.com
Katie Schmidt
Chair Social Media
katie@dempseycorporation.com
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CSIFT Leadership Team
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Officers:
John Chambers, Chair John Budin, Chair Elect Olivia Klose, Secretary James Colby, Treasurer Linda Perucca, Past Chair
Executive Committee:
Bill Becht
Glenn Bluemer
Mike Carson
Laura Colby
Laura Gray
Jan Miller
Sue Monckton
Linda Perucca
Keith Shafer
Manoj Shah
Timothy Stubbs
Mike Wanous
We are always looking for volunteers to help with the work of the Section - get involved today! Contact BusinessOffice@ChicagoIFT.org
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Issue: #6
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February 18, 2014
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Message from Our Chair John Chambers
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Chicago Section IFT
2013-2014 Chair
DMH Ingredients
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Dear CSIFT Members & Friends of CSIFT,
We hope you enjoy this month's newsletter. For the first time we have made it available to our entire mailing list and not limited it to members of CSIFT.
I hope you all had a great time at the February dinner meeting. I want to thank all the committee volunteers and our business office for making the evening a very special event! The House and Program Committees certainly lived up to their reputation providing a great venue and guest speaker.
I look forward to seeing everyone at our March 10th event at the Rosewood Restaurant in Rosemont, IL. We will have a very special guest speaker in Dr. Joanne Slavin a Professor at the University of Minnesota. Her presentation is titled "The Good Carbohydrate".
 The 2014-2015 elections for Chicago Section IFT have started. I encourage all our members to vote for the great candidates we have set. Elections close March 12th. Download Full Article
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March 10th Dinner & Discussion: Dr. Joanne L. Slavin
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The Good Carbohydrate
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Join members and friends of Chicago Section IFT as we welcome Dr. Joanne L. Slavin, professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition as she shares the latest research on "The Good Carbohydrate."
The search for the holy grail of diets continues. Humans are omnivores and can adapt to a wide range of foodstuffs. Traditional diets generally reflect the locally available food supply. The trick to obtaining good tradition is to consume a diet with the appropriate number of calories and adequate protein and essential vitamins, minerals, and fluids for your environment.
Traditionally, nutrient recommendations have been made to prevent diseases caused by nutrient deficiencies. The amount of dietary carbohydrates required to confer optimal health in humans is unknown. Dr. Slavin will share the latest research on "good carbohydrates."
Rosewood Restaurant, 9421 West Higgins Rd, Rosemont, IL.
847-696-9494 www.rosewoodrestaurant.com
5:00 PM: Social Hour
6:00 - 8:30 PM: Dinner & Discussion
Click here to register and for more information;
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Prinova March Dinner Meeting Sponsor
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 Prinova Group is proud to serve as the Platinum Sponsor for the up-coming Chicago IFT Section dinner in March.
Sharing the same passion for the food industry as IFT, Prinova is continuously moving forward to provide solutions that keep manufacturers on the leading edge. Learn about Prinova's newest innovations in custom nutrient premixes.
Click on ad to learn more. Download Prinova Solutions Division Profile |
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CSIFT Members Save $100 at the IFT Wellness 14 Conference
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 Register at www.ift.org/wellness. Select your registration product (Full Conference Access or Conference + Short Course)., Then complete a short questionnaire and enter yourr payment information. At checkout, input CHISECTION14 to receive $100 off your registration. |
Professional Development Committee Update
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The Professional Development Committee is looking for energetic and passionate individuals to join our team. We have three dynamic sub-committees you can be a part of:
1. Career Guidance & Continuing Education
2. Employment & Members-in-Transition
3. Technical Sessions
Career Guidance & Continuing Education
The sub-committee is in the process of planning new programming for our members to enhance their professional growth and development. We will be sending out a survey within the next few weeks to find out what kinds of professional development courses and programs will benefit you and your companies. Please take the time to participate in the survey so that we can move forward with these great new ideas. Stay tuned.
It's a great opportunity to network and collaborate closely with fellow industry professionals. We have a lot of fun designing and organizing events, courses and workshops for professional growth, career development and technical skills acquisition/improvement that will benefit you, our members and colleagues. Come join us. We would love to have you on board.
If you are interested in being a part of this dynamic team, please contact:
Susan Abraham-Rivera, Ph.D.
Chair, Professional Development Committee
AgriFIS, Inc.
susan@agrifis.com
(847) 942-4136
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Career Center: February Employment Opportunities
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 Job Postings Available Here: Click Here
The CSIFT Career Center publishes the employment newsletter as a free service to Chicago Section IFT members, posting current job listings. As an active member you may view these listings and contact a member of the committee for further information.
If you have any questions about a current listing or would like to post an employment notice, please contact Gary Wills, Chair, Employment Committee at (708) 214-6689 or at garwil526@aol.com.
Any active member of the CSIFT may post their own job listing to the CSIFT LinkedIn, as well as in our newsletter.
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April 3 Technical Breakfast Session at Mintel
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The Science and Market Forces Behind the Gluten-Free Movement
7:30 - 10:00 AM
- The Rise of Gluten-Free: Trends in the US Free-From Market (Stephanie Pauk, Mintel)
- Expand Your Gluten-Free Formulating Toolbox (Jennifer Williams, Penford Food Ingredients)
- Gluten-Free Formulation: As Good...or Better? (Daniel Best, BEST VANTAGE, Inc.)
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2014 Proten Trends & Technologies Seminar
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 2014 Protein Trends & Technologies Seminar,
a product development event focused on providing R&D with practical formulation advice, nutrition & sensory data on protein-enhanced snacks, baked goods, dairy products, confections, foods, beverages and dietary supplements.
Click on ad to learn more.
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New Professionals Events: Chocolate & Wine Tasting
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Join the New Professionals!
The New Professionals group encourages anyone who has been in the industry 10 years or less to join in on our networking fun. Look for updates to the Facebook group and CSIFT website. If you are not receiving monthly emails with upcoming event information, please email Niki at nbaran@flavorchem.com and request to be added.
 On January 23rd we held our annual Whirlyball event in Lombard which was sponsored by Prinova. We had a New Professional attendee high with 46 people! All of us raced around in bumper cars attempting to score goals for some friendly competition. We also enjoyed pizza and nachos while networking and seeing the neat stuff Prinova had to offer.
Our February 20 event is Chocolate and Wine Tasting at Life's a Cabernet in Chicago. The cost is $20 per person (member or non-member), but registration is limited to 25 people so sign up quickly!
On Wednesday March 19th we will meet at Xtreme Trampolines in Carol Stream. Join us for some high flying trampoline action.
Please register for all events on our webpage.
http://chicagoift.org/newprofessionals.html
Co-Chairs: Niki Baron & Molly Connor Download Article
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Scholarship Focus: Meet Aaron Uesugi
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The CSIFT Scholarship Committee is committed to not only providing scholarships, but to sharing with CSIFT members and friends how the funds donated from golf outing and Suppliers' Night proceeds as well as sponsorships are used to support students as they study food science.
Meet Aaron Uesugi who is currently working as a Sr.Scientist at Kraft Foods. Download Interview
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Know Your Emeritus Member
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Click on the (cute!) picture of this month's Emeritus Member Biography to find out who she is!
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Focus on the University of Illinois: Product Development Course - Creations
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University of Illinois students enrolled in the Product Development course presented the products they had been working on developing during the fall semester to the public, including several food industry professionals, on Monday, December 16.
FSHN 466, Product Development, is the senior capstone course for the Food Science and the Food Industry and Business concentrations at the University of Illinois. The course provides a team-based, applied approach to developing new food products. The student teams were assigned a few product attributes that their products needed to meet, creating different product categories amongst the items developed.
The Chicago Section IFT provides funding to partially support one of the teaching assistants for this course. David Bloom, a graduate student in Food Science and Human Nutrition, served as the Chicago Section IFT teaching assistant this semester. He assisted several of the teams in problem solving, ingredient acquisition, task management, and other aspects of the product development process. Download Article
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February Dinner Meeting Recap
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Food Technologists Can Change the World -
For Better or for Worse:
It was a pleasure to see everyone at the Chicago Section IFT February meeting. It was a packed house of over 154 people. There was a lot of energy and good discussions by those that attended. We had nearly 20 people attend the dinner meeting that had not attended in the past.
Michael Jacobson, Ph.D., Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest was our guest speaker for the dinner meeting held at Hilton in Northbrook, IL. Afterwards, several people commented that they were glad the Chicago Section IFT gave Dr. Jacobson the opportunity to speak on issues he believes are important for consumers. Dr. Jacobson gave a very good presentation which was followed by and excellent question and answer session.
Dr. Jacobson provided three areas of where some improvements in food quality have occurred - but more improvements are needed in the development of foods:
- Reducing sodium content;
- Reducing sugar content; and
- Providing new and more appealing opportunities to encourage people to consume vegetables.
Download Article
Download a copy of the Presentation
Watch Dr. Jacobson's presentation thanks to IFT's recording of the meeting.
I look forward to seeing everyone at the March dinner meeting.
John Budin
Program Committee Chair, and Chair Elect CSIFT
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Tanner Lecture Award Winner Announced
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Does the Processing of Foods Impact Cancer Risk?
 This year's Tanner Lecture winner is John W. Erdman, Jr., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign.
World-wide, cancer continues to be the primary cause of non-infectious disease mortality. It is generally assumed that environmental factors, including diet choice, accounts for a third or more of cancer risk. Because differential food processing operations are used to convert raw materials into final food products, one might ask whether choice of processing techniques or selection of types of processed foods increases or decreases the risk of cancer.
Much more is to be accomplished in this emerging field of research, but application of current knowledge should help with the war against cancer. Download Full Article
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CSIFT Recognizes Achievements & Service - Nominate Someone!
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| We are seeking recommendations for the Chicago Section IFT Chairman's Achievement Award and the Ellery H. Harvey Service Award. Just a little bit of Chicago Section IFT trivia, Ellery H. Harvey was the first Chair of the Chicago Section IFT when it was founded back in January 1941.
The Ellery H. Harvey Service Award recognizes an outstanding food technologist who has distinguished him or herself in the service of the Chicago Section IFT. Only Chicago Section members are eligible, excluding the Awards Committee Members and elected officers. The award consists of $200 honorarium, plaque, and expenses of the awardee to the presentation at the May Tanner Meeting.
If you know of someone who has made great contributions to the Section please use the link below to nominate and help recognize them for all their efforts. This is our time to say THANK YOU! The deadline is March 31st. After the nominees are collected a panel of Past Chairs will select the awardee.
Use this link to submit your nomination: Link Here
 The purpose of the Chairman's Achievement Award is recognizing a Chicago Section Member or Members who has an outstanding achievement in Food Science. The award consists of a $250 honorarium, plaque and expenses of the awardee to the presentation at the Tanner meeting in May.
If you know of a Chicago Section Member who has outstanding accomplishments in Food Science please use the link below to nominate them. The deadline is March 31st. The same panel will select the awardee.
Use this link to submit your nomination: Link Here
If you'd rather use a paper nomination form, please contact the CSIFT Business Office by phone at 630-916-4960 or by email at BusinessOffice@ChicagoIFT.org.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Linda Perucca
Chair of Nominations and Awards Committee
Mondelez International
(847) 943-4791
lperucca@mdlz.com
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Welcome New Members!
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The Chicago Section IFT Welcomes New Members from January 2014!
Carmela Albanese, Aspen Foods Division of Koch Foods, Inc.
Julia Amador
Melodie Anderson, IFT
Christina Barrera, Sensient Flavors
Marykay Bolles
James Carr, Excelon International
Kathy Danner, IFT
Jean Heis, IFT
Audrey Holocher, Storied Research, Inc.
Whitney Johnson, Tate & Lyle
Nancy Jose Cecil, Aryzta, LLC.
Iwona Kossak, IFT
Timothy Meyer, Equity Advisors, Inc.
Melinda Murray
Ifad Noor, Vegetable Juices, Inc.
Martin O"Donovan, Socius Ingredients, LLC
Bob Pudlock, Gulf Stream Search
Julie Strand, IFT
Joseph Toraason
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Members-Only Knowledge Center
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Did you know that as a member of CSIFT that you have access to all of the newsletters since 2007? In addition, you can search for particular topics or speakers using the Search Feature in the Members-Only Website.
Also, take advantage of the online membership directory to find a "lost" associate or to follow up on a sales lead. You can add to your profile any time you'd like.
Search for Suppliers exhibiting at Suppliers' Night by using the online Exhibitor Search. And, of course, the Career Center is also included in the Members-Only website.
Take advantage of these great benefits - login to members-only.
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