The Latest Science Behind Food

Newswise — With technical sessions addressing breaking and evolving topics affecting consumers, businesses, governments and others inherently involved in food, the 64th IFT Annual Meeting + Food Expo in Las Vegas has upheld its commitment to providing the world's largest annual forum for the exchange of food-science, -business, and -regulation knowledge. The following topics reveal a portion only of the exhaustive information provided during the 5-day conference:

- Americans Lay Claim to the Low-Carb Title - Feeling Full Not the Only Key to Obesity - The Mars Challenge: Making Space Chow - To Carb or No-Carb: One of Many Diet Questions - A Balanced Diet Elusive for Most - Organic is a Production Claim, Not a Sign of Safety - Research Shows Difference Between Some Organic and Conventional Produce - Adding Omega-3s Is No Simple Task - Food and Convenience: A Package Deal - Millenials: Young Adults Thinking Differently About Food - FDA Counting Calories, Wrestling with Consumer Habits - Farming Plants for Pharmaceuticals Still Promising - So Much More to Obesity than Ingredients - Diet and Health Driving Food Product Reformulation - Regulatory Consensus, Education Needed for Consistent Food Safety - Are Childhood Obesity Initiatives Shaping Up?

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Annually ranked among the largest conventions in America*, the 64th annual IFT Annual Meeting + Food Expo July 12-16 attracted 19,565 registered attendees and 950 exhibiting companies, and delivered comprehensive, cutting-edge research and opinion from food science-, technology-, marketing- and business-leaders. Future shows are scheduled for New Orleans, July 16-20, 2005, Orlando, Fla. (2006) and Chicago (2007).

* According to 2004 edition of Tradeshow Week® 200 magazine.

Founded in 1939, the Institute of Food Technologists is a not-for-profit international scientific society with 28,000 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.