The forthcoming Institute of Food Technologists Annual Meeting and Food Expo will, amongst a host of topics, be discussing future trends in food safety and processing.
The meeting, which is taking place between 12-16 July, at Chicago's McCormick Place Convention Center, Illinois, US, is the largest annual technical meeting and exhibition of its kind in the world. It will host 1,000 exhibiting companies, more than 20,000 registered attendees and 1,000 technical presentations. Three of the biggest presentations are expected to be: the top five food trends for 2005, Nutragenomics and the the implications of new legislation on food production.
Top Five Trends will focus on emerging trends and what the future of the food industry holds in store for businesses and consumers. A diverse panel of experts will represent food processing to food service, government to marketing, and each will present significant trends they recognise as being imminent.
The Brave New World of Nutragenomics will provide insight on gene chips and other new technologies, how they work and what promise they hold. Potential business opportunities and obstacles created by nutragenomics will take precedence and include the social and ethical issues involved. Conclusions will include the corporate requirements necessary for this new era.
Hot Topics sessions close with Food Fight: The Food Industry Under Attack, a candid assessment of situations which bring the food industry negative publicity carrying legal and societal ramifications. Expert speakers representing legal, political, academic, and industry perspectives will address the impacts of litigation and industry responses on topics such as nutrition, obesity, California's Proposition 65, and genetically modified foods.
The IFT Annual Meeting together with Food Expo aims to deliver a comprehensive, cutting-edge research and opinion from food science-, technology-, marketing- and business-leaders. More information on these events is available online at www.am-fe.ift.org.