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olved---chemical, physical, physiological, nutritional, cultural, esthetic, v nd economic. Tracing the chain of cause and effect from the molecular to response is the task of 25 invited speakers. Poster resentatlOns are Invited. p Einsiedeln is a small town in the Alps not too far from Zurich, nestled around a wonderful cathedral and monastery dating from 948 AD. There is a new congress center and many comfortable and reasonably-priced hotels. A program of visits and excursions is planned for accompanying persons. • The Impact of Toxicology on Food Processing Place: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Date: Approximately 4-7 June, 1980, immediately prior to I FT Annual Meeting. Chairman: Professor John C. Ayres. Publications from Recent IUFoST Symposia "Physical, Chemical and Biological Changes in Food Caused by Ther- mal Processing". (Symposium No 27, Oslo, Norway) 388 pp. (Eds: T. Hoyem and O. Kv1ile) 1977, Applied Science Publishers Ltd, Lon- don. "Post Harvest Biology and Biotechnology". (Symposium No 29, Phil- adelphia, USA) 468 pp. (Eds: H. O. Hultin and M. Milner) 1978, Food and Nutrition Press Inc., 265 Post Road West, Westport, CT, 06880, USA. ISBN 0-917678-05-2. "How Ready are Ready-to-Serve Foods?" (Symposium No 30, Karls- ruhe, Germany, F.R.) 333 pp. (Ed: K. Paulus) 1978, S. Karger Verlag, Postfach 2, 0-8034 Germering, Germany, F.R. Future Events of Interest • XXVIIlth International Congress of Physiological Sciences Place: Congress Center, Budapest, Hungary. Date: 13-19 July 1980. Information: Secretariat, MOTESZ, Congress Bureau, H-1361, Bu- dapest. Pr. 32, Hungary. • Vlth International Fermentation Symposium Place: London, Ontario, Canada Date: 20-27 July 1980. Information: Professor J. E. Zajic, Faculty of Engineering Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9. • XX 1st International Horticultural Congress Place: Congress Center, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany. Date: 29 August-4 September 1982. Information: Secretariat, PO Box 30 23 60, 0-2000, Hamburg 36, Germany, F.R. Personal Professor John Hawthorn (UK), Immediate Past President of IUFoST has been selected to receive the International Award of the 1FT (USA) for 1979, for outstanding efforts to promote the international exchange of ideas on food technology. Or Richard L. Hall, Vice-President of IUFoST, was selected as Man of the Year (1978) by the Philadelphia Section of 1FT (USA) for his contri- butions to food science, nutrition and safety. Professor Erik von Sydow, first Secretary-General of IUFoST, was honored in a different way shortly after he returned home from Congress V. He became a grandfather to a baby girl! Call to Delegates Please send material for the IUFoST Newsletter to the Secretary- General. Even gossip and trivia help us to get to know each other better in the international food science community. Please circulate this Newsletter widely among your national members and encourage re-publication of IUFoST information in your national food journals. SCITEC HIGHLIGHTS Science and Engineering Week The Science and Engineering Week held in Ottawa, October 1978 was a first and a success. It generated public and national interest and involved a large segment of the community. Some 40 000 people were exposed through various activities of open houses, seminars, talks, dramas, films, exhibits, etc. The Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Day was well frequented. Plans are being developed for a 1979 week in Halifax. Public Awareness Project The current plan is to help ensure that the media, particularly newspa- pers, receive an influx of scientific articles of specific public interest. Dr. 1. Inst. Can. Sci. Techno!' Aliment. Vo!. 12. No. 3. Juillel 1979 John Kucharzyk is the Director of this project and activity undertaking is being impeded by lack of funds. Reviewing the recent Scientific Research Policy of Quebec for the English press was identified and accepted as an activity under this project and a Committee will be formed for this purpose. Committee on Initiatives A Committee on Initiatives has been created under the chairmanship of Or. Mount (Ottawa Univ.). Its mandate will be (I) "to identify areas suited to the multi disciplinary composition of SCITEC, areas of concern focussing on societal problem solving mechanisms in line of specific goal- oriented subjects". (2) "to provide SCITEC Executive with a selection of topics, discussants, media for study and dialogue (Forums, Seminars, Research, Education Programs) by semi-annual reports or according to deadlines set by the Executive and Council of SCITEC." Tariff Exemption Tariff exemption would impose a further cost to Universities on their laboratory equipment, representing some 10-14% increase in their budget requirements. Each President of each Member Society is invited to present a brief deploring this situation (refer to Bill prepared by Biological Council of Canada). Parliamentary and Scientific Assistants A motion was approved in principle for a "Parliamentary and Scien- tific Assistant Program". This would be in addition to and a complement of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. The purpose is (I) "To provide members of the House with access to scientists of knowledge and ability on a continuous basis"; (2) "To provide insight into the working of the parliamentary process to a group of senior scientists". Initially, the program would provide for some four scientists to spend up to 12 months working as assistants to those M.P.'s who have a special interest in science. Political Parties and Mechanisms of the House are in support of this program, but feeling is that funding must come from non-government sources (estimated cost: $200000). Deductibility of Membership fees and awards SCITEC was asked to make representation to Revenue Canada to clarify deductibility of society membership fees and also to request deducti- bility privileges for all awards over $500 for the purpose of computing income for taxation purposes. Available Publications "Nuclear Option for Canada" "Food from Water" DIRECfORY CORRECTIONS Please note the following directory corrections: I) Mr. F. L.Verhagen, MA Quality Assurance Manager, The Canadian Salt Company Limited, 606 Cathcart Street, Montreal, Quebec H3B I L6 Telephone: 878-3511 2) Or. G. B. Patel, OA National Research Council of Canada, lOO Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K I A OR6 Telephone: 992-3687 3) Judith Hogg, GA Universal Foods Limited, 50 Fasken Drive, Unit 16, Rexdale, Ontario 4) Basil Kamel, XA Agriculture Department, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, P.O. Box 24885, Safat, Kuwait 5) Under Affiliation Universal Foods Limited P. J. Sandy Bibby - Telephone 462-4293 Judith Hogg Nora Martin Paul Patry BARBADOS R. R. Riel The CIFST has been contacted by a related group, the Barbados Food A61
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olved---chemical, physical, physiological, nutritional, cultural, esthetic, v nd economic. Tracing the chain of cause and effect from the molecular ~evel to t~e cons~m~r response is the task of 25 invited speakers. Poster resentatlOns are Invited.
p Einsiedeln is a small town in the Alps not too far from Zurich, nestled around a wonderful cathedral and monastery dating from 948 AD. There is a new congress center and many comfortable and reasonably-priced hotels. A program of visits and excursions is planned for accompanying persons.
• The Impact of Toxicology on Food Processing Place: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Date: Approximately 4-7 June, 1980, immediately prior to I FT
Annual Meeting. Chairman: Professor John C. Ayres.
Publications from Recent IUFoST Symposia "Physical, Chemical and Biological Changes in Food Caused by Thermal Processing". (Symposium No 27, Oslo, Norway) 388 pp. (Eds: T. Hoyem and O. Kv1ile) 1977, Applied Science Publishers Ltd, London. "Post Harvest Biology and Biotechnology". (Symposium No 29, Philadelphia, USA) 468 pp. (Eds: H. O. Hultin and M. Milner) 1978, Food and Nutrition Press Inc., 265 Post Road West, Westport, CT, 06880, USA. ISBN 0-917678-05-2. "How Ready are Ready-to-Serve Foods?" (Symposium No 30, Karlsruhe, Germany, F.R.) 333 pp. (Ed: K. Paulus) 1978, S. Karger Verlag, Postfach 2, 0-8034 Germering, Germany, F.R.
Future Events of Interest • XXVIIlth International Congress of Physiological Sciences
Place: Congress Center, Budapest, Hungary. Date: 13-19 July 1980. Information: Secretariat, MOTESZ, Congress Bureau, H-1361, Bu
dapest. Pr. 32, Hungary. • Vlth International Fermentation Symposium
Place: London, Ontario, Canada Date: 20-27 July 1980. Information: Professor J. E. Zajic, Faculty of Engineering Science,
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B9.
• XX 1st International Horticultural Congress Place: Congress Center, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany. Date: 29 August-4 September 1982. Information: Secretariat, PO Box 30 23 60, 0-2000, Hamburg 36,
Germany, F.R.
Personal Professor John Hawthorn (UK), Immediate Past President of IUFoST
has been selected to receive the International Award of the 1FT (USA) for 1979, for outstanding efforts to promote the international exchange of ideas on food technology.
Or Richard L. Hall, Vice-President of IUFoST, was selected as Man of the Year (1978) by the Philadelphia Section of 1FT (USA) for his contributions to food science, nutrition and safety.
Professor Erik von Sydow, first Secretary-General of IUFoST, was honored in a different way shortly after he returned home from Congress V. He became a grandfather to a baby girl!
Call to Delegates Please send material for the IUFoST Newsletter to the Secretary
General. Even gossip and trivia help us to get to know each other better in the international food science community.
Please circulate this Newsletter widely among your national members and encourage re-publication of IUFoST information in your national food journals.
SCITEC HIGHLIGHTS Science and Engineering Week
The Science and Engineering Week held in Ottawa, October 1978 was a first and a success. It generated public and national interest and involved a large segment of the community. Some 40 000 people were exposed through various activities of open houses, seminars, talks, dramas, films, exhibits, etc. The Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Day was well frequented. Plans are being developed for a 1979 week in Halifax.
Public Awareness Project The current plan is to help ensure that the media, particularly newspa
pers, receive an influx of scientific articles of specific public interest. Dr.
1. Inst. Can. Sci. Techno!' Aliment. Vo!. 12. No. 3. Juillel 1979
John Kucharzyk is the Director of this project and activity undertaking is being impeded by lack of funds. Reviewing the recent Scientific Research Policy of Quebec for the English press was identified and accepted as an activity under this project and a Committee will be formed for this purpose.
Committee on Initiatives A Committee on Initiatives has been created under the chairmanship
of Or. Mount (Ottawa Univ.). Its mandate will be (I) "to identify areas suited to the multi disciplinary composition of SCITEC, areas of concern focussing on societal problem solving mechanisms in line of specific goaloriented subjects". (2) "to provide SCITEC Executive with a selection of topics, discussants, media for study and dialogue (Forums, Seminars, Research, Education Programs) by semi-annual reports or according to deadlines set by the Executive and Council of SCITEC."
Tariff Exemption Tariff exemption would impose a further cost to Universities on their
laboratory equipment, representing some 10-14% increase in their budget requirements. Each President of each Member Society is invited to present a brief deploring this situation (refer to Bill prepared by Biological Council of Canada).
Parliamentary and Scientific Assistants A motion was approved in principle for a "Parliamentary and Scien
tific Assistant Program". This would be in addition to and a complement of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee. The purpose is (I) "To provide members of the House with access to scientists of knowledge and ability on a continuous basis"; (2) "To provide insight into the working of the parliamentary process to a group of senior scientists". Initially, the program would provide for some four scientists to spend up to 12 months working as assistants to those M.P.'s who have a special interest in science. Political Parties and Mechanisms of the House are in support of this program, but feeling is that funding must come from non-government sources (estimated cost: $200000).
Deductibility of Membership fees and awards SCITEC was asked to make representation to Revenue Canada to
clarify deductibility of society membership fees and also to request deductibility privileges for all awards over $500 for the purpose of computing income for taxation purposes.
Available Publications "Nuclear Option for Canada" "Food from Water"
DIRECfORY CORRECTIONS Please note the following directory corrections:
I) Mr. F. L.Verhagen, MA Quality Assurance Manager, The Canadian Salt Company Limited, 606 Cathcart Street, Montreal, Quebec H3B I L6 Telephone: 878-3511
2) Or. G. B. Patel, OA National Research Council of Canada, lOO Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K I A OR6 Telephone: 992-3687
3) Judith Hogg, GA Universal Foods Limited, 50 Fasken Drive, Unit 16, Rexdale, Ontario
4) Basil Kamel, XA Agriculture Department, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, P.O. Box 24885, Safat, Kuwait
5) Under Affiliation Universal Foods Limited P. J. Sandy Bibby - Telephone 462-4293 Judith Hogg Nora Martin Paul Patry
BARBADOS
R. R. Riel
The CIFST has been contacted by a related group, the Barbados Food
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