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Volume 6, Issue 1 :: July - August 2001 |
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FoodPAC Membership Continues to Expand into New Industry Sectors With the recent issuance of new operational guidelines, FoodPAC has rededicated its commitment to broadening the representation of all food industry sectors in the Traditional Industries Program for Food Processing. For a number of sectors, that representation has been there from the beginning. For the bakery and case-ready meat packing sectors, that representation took form for the first time this past year. With the addition of Mrs. Smith’s Bakeries and Excel Corp., FoodPAC gained two recognized leaders in their respective industrial sectors. Both have state-of-the-art processing facilities here in Georgia, yet they remain ever vigilant of new ways to improve operations. For FoodPAC, that means new ideas for research investment that can help strengthen the return-on-investment equation. This past year, Flowers Industries, parent company of Mrs. Smith’s Bakeries, partnered with Bake-Tech Systems, a Georgia bakery equipment manufacturer, to propose the bakery sector’s first FoodPAC research project: the development of a high-speed, visual-imaging system to screen for on-line, roll and bun quality. Eying the high-speed grapefruit screening system being completed by Georgia Tech and Durand-Wayland, under FoodPAC support, this partnership saw an opportunity to gain rapid access to a much needed bun/roll screening system that could meet the cost and performance needs of the bakery sector. The project was funded for FY 2002 and is now getting underway. Excel, likewise, has opened dialogues with both Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia on new automation technology and food safety needs while looking at work both universities have done in recent years for the poultry industry. Excel appears poised to participate in the next FoodPAC Call for Project Proposals.
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . UGA Announces Master’s in Food Technology Program The University of Georgia (UGA) now offers a Master’s degree program in Food Technology. Designed to provide food professionals in the Atlanta area with an opportunity to earn an advanced degree, the program will start this fall at the Gwinnett University Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Administered and taught by UGA’s Department of Food Science and Technology faculty and others, courses will be offered evenings and Saturdays for the convenience of working professionals who wish to learn and earn an advanced degree to help them in their work and careers. Initial course offerings include Integrating the Multidisciplinary Aspects of Food Science, Food Packaging, Food Product Development, Functional Foods, and Marketing of Value-added Foods. The program will require completion of 30 semester hours of graduate study, including a non-thesis research paper. Most required courses will be offered at the Lawrenceville site on evenings and Saturdays. For more information, contact Professor Louise Wicker, Interim Director, Off-campus MFT Program, by phone at (706) 542-1055 or e-mail at lwicker@arches.uga.edu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . National
Agriculture The Third Annual National Symposium on the Future of American Agriculture: Southern Region will be held August 16-17 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens, Georgia. The theme for this year’s symposium is “Can Production Agriculture Survive? What is Needed?” Hosted by UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the event brings together experts from the nation’s leading agricultural organizations, colleges, agribusiness, and government to discuss the challenges facing the agricultural industry in the 21st century. Nearly 200 to 300 representatives of these various groups are expected to attend this year’s symposium, where they will hear presentations that describe the current agricultural situation and identify the problems and challenges facing it. Particular emphasis will be placed on identifying priorities for the issues and alternative policy revisions to address them. The results of the symposium should assist Congress in evaluating policy decisions for the next farm bill and provide a basis for potential funding requests for research, teaching, and extension programs. For more information or to register for the symposium, call (706) 542-2134. |
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