By: Thomas Siebertz Being from New England, when I hear the word cocoa, I instantly think of the warm chocolaty beverage you consume after hours of playing in the snow. Food has the tendency to evoke the happiest of...
By Liz Sharpe and Tori Sbrogna The UMass Food Science Club has been busy fundraising! We recently bottled 25 gallons of pure Massachusetts maple syrup in 8 ounce containers with our own customized UMass label. The bottles were sterilized...
By Benjamin Raymond Under new California Retail Food Code food handlers must wear gloves when touching food. This means bartenders when they mix a cocktail to sushi chefs rolling up a spicy tuna roll. News articles are filled with...
Originally appeared in www.IFT.org Knowledge Center Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs are one of the biggest hot button topics of our time. They bring out strong feelings and emotions whenever and wherever they are discussed. So, today we have...
By Diana Maricruz Perez Santos Food industry has a lot of processes: cooking, baking, frying, drying and more. Thankfully these processes exist so now we can eat all kinds of unimaginable foods. Food engineering is the knowledge area that...
Name: José Reyes-De-Corcuera Job title: Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator Company: Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia Highest Level of Education/Degree: Ph.D., Engineering Science, Washington State University What does your schedule look like today? This...
By: Thomas Siebertz Simply put, this stuff is amazing! I recently got to take a tour of the Grand Ten Distillery and learn about the distilling process. Spencer, the owner, showed me around and afterwards...
By Dr. Jesse Trushenski Originally appeared in The Factual Fish Squeezer “The bottom line on aquaculture, hatcheries, and farmed fish” Brightly colored and beautiful, Glofish like the ones pictured here are quite popular in the aquarium trade. They delight children...
By Thomas Siebertz One of the ways we help protect public health is through product recalls. Recalls can happen for a variety of reasons including mislabeling of product, biological/physical contamination or for quality issues. It’s extremely important for companies...
By Diana Maricruz Perez-Santos The globalization of the food industry would not have reached its current point without the technological development of packaging. The need to produce and distribute food has led to the development of all types of...