Sessions on Processing Present New Concepts

摘要

Each year, the IFT Annual Meeting Technical Program features an assortment of forums, symposia, and oral and poster sessions on a wide variety of topics concerning ingredients, processing, and technologies. The quality has steadily improved over the years as the organizers have become more selective, even as the number of presentations has grown. The sessions on processing and engineering are often the first place where new concepts are presented, such as high-pressure processing and pulsed electric fields in past years. Now the underlying mechanisms for these novel techniques are being discovered and the processes are moving into commercial practice. Scanning the topics of sessions and papers this year gives a sense of new interests and trends which foretell future advances.