482 AMERICAN POTATO JOURNAL [Vol. 46

I N T E R N A T I O N C O N G R E S S ON F O O D S C I E N C E AND T E C H N O L O G Y A N N O U N C E D

A world-wide conference of food scientists and technologists will meet in Washington from August 9 through August 14, 1970, to tackle the problem of making new and better foods available now and for the gener- ations ahead.

Taking the "Science of Survival" as its theme, the Third Inter- national Congress of Food Science and Technology - - the first to be held in the United States - - will seek to speed efforts to solve world food requirements by creating nutritional and acceptable additions to the traditional families of foodstuffs.

The announcement was made by Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin, whose department is a co-sponsor of the meeting; Dr. George F. Stewart, secretary general of the International Committee of Food Science and Technology, co-sponsor; Dr. H. E. Robinson, president of the Institute of Food Technologists, host organization for the conference; and Dr. Richard L. Hall, chairman of the executive board for the meeting.

Dr. Stewart is associated with the University of California at Davis, Dr. Robinson is president of the Swift Chemical Company of Chicago, and Dr. Hall is vice president of McCormick & Company, Inc., of Balti- more.

The meeting is to be supported by contributions from American in- dustry, foundations, and interested government agencies.

Two previous meetings of the world's food science groups were held in London in 1962 and in Warsaw in 1966.

"We welcome the fact that organizers of this third Congress, from this country and abroad, have added to the scientific agenda of previous meetings an attempt to provide some direct applications for meeting the world's needs," Secretary Hardin declared.

"Much of the additional food supply required to solve our needs for the future must come from the innovative effort of those in the relatively new field of food science and technology.

"I t is a hopeful sign that the men and women who have developed this new field of applied science are seeking to unify the efforts of govern- ment, industry, and the academic area, and to involve those from lesser developed nations who can make important contributions to the expansion of ~ood resources."

Dr. Hall said that more than 3,000 food scientists and technologists from more than 50 nations would attend the Congress, which has adopted "SOS/70" as the "signature" for its meeting.

Two plenary sessions, twelve symposium meetings on major areas of food science and technology, workshop sessions designed to develop a world-wide plan of action, and special formal and informal discussion groups will bring together world leaders from all the scientific disciplines which can affect food supply, as well as from government agencies and from industries.