Major Food Conference Takes Hard Look At Antibiotics And Animals

Newswise — Judgment on the widespread use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in the production of animals intended for human consumption will headline technical presentations during this year's Institute of Food Technologists' Annual Meeting + FOOD EXPO®, the world's largest annual food science forum and exposition, June 24-28.

To be released here Monday, June 26, the IFT Expert Report: Antimicrobial Resistance—Implications for the Food System, will address this highly contested issue in the manner consistent with other exhaustive, informative IFT Expert Reports on functional foods (2005), emerging microbiological food safety issues (2002), and biotechnology and foods (2000).

Also during this Monday session IFT will release scientific analyses summarizing the state-of-the-science in four areas of food. These IFT Scientific Status Summaries will address organics, nanotechnology, mycotoxins, and packaging.

Major themes during this year's IFT Annual Meeting technical program will be: Food Defense/Bioterrorism; Functional Foods, Globalization; and Food Allergens.

Much more detailed information is available online at www.am-fe.ift.org.

Now in its 66th year, IFT Annual Meeting + FOOD EXPO® is the world's single largest annual scientific meeting and technical exposition of its kind, regularly registering up to 20,000 attendees, nearly 1,000 exhibiting companies, and more than 1,000 technical presentations. Rated among the largest shows in America*, the meeting and expo delivers comprehensive, cutting-edge research and opinion from food science-, technology-, marketing- and business-leaders.* According to Tradeshow Week® magazine.

Founded in 1939, and with world headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, the Institute of Food Technologists is a not-for-profit international scientific society with 22,000 members working in food science, technology and related professions in industry, academia and government. As the society for food science and technology, IFT brings sound science to the public discussion of food issues. For more on IFT, see http://www.ift.org.