Congrats to Taco Belles Veronica Jaramillo and Priscilla Leftakis for their second-place finish in the Maple Innovation Challenge. The competition was sponsored by Quebec maple syrup producers, the Maple Products Corporation and the Canadian Institute of Food Science & Technology (CIFST). Their product? A maple vegan hot chocolate mix.
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Published on: 16 Feb 2023
Golden Bar (Wayne Sawka, Sky Castaing and Anas AlHouran), Cold Noodle (Jinyu Zhou, Zijing Yu, Xinyi Liu, Xiyuan Shang and Simin Tan) and Taco Belles (Veronica, Jaramillo and Priscilla Leftakis) are three Macdonald Campus teams advancing to round two of the competition.
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Published on: 30 Nov 2022
Liquid chromatography coupled to quadrupole time-of-flight (LC-Q/TOF) is proving one of the most comprehensive methods for testing food authenticity, according to Dr St茅phane Bayen, an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry at 星空真人.
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Published on: 2 May 2022
On March 26th, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mr. Andr茅 Lamontagne, announced grants totaling $7.1M to three organizations engaged in the food processing sector, including $6M in funding to The Consortium for Research, Innovation and Transformation of Agrifood (RITA) at 星空真人 over the next 5 years.聽
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Published on: 27 Mar 2022
星空真人 has joined Moderna鈥檚 program, which aims to accelerate innovation and enable new vaccines and medicines for emerging and neglected infectious diseases through collaborative research and preclinical development. 星空真人 is the first university in Canada to join this program as it ramps up its international rollout.
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Published on: 25 Mar 2022
星空真人 has joined Moderna鈥檚 program, which aims to accelerate innovation and enable new vaccines and medicines for emerging and neglected infectious diseases through collaborative research and preclinical development. 星空真人 is the first university in Canada to join this program as it ramps up its international rollout.
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Published on: 25 Mar 2022
On December 13th at a ceremony hosted by the Canadian Governor General鈥檚 Office in Ottawa, Ebrahim (Eby) Noroozi, MSc'78 (Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry), was presented with The Sovereign鈥檚 Medal for Volunteers in the presence of Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada.
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Published on: 17 Dec 2021
Rassembler des entreprises concurrentes autour d鈥檜ne m锚me table avec des chercheurs pour innover聽: c鈥檈st le d茅fi sur lequel mise, depuis 2017, le Consortium de recherche et d鈥檌nnovation sur la transformation alimentaire (RITA) 脿 l鈥橴niversit茅 星空真人. Et 莽a marche.
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Published on: 16 Nov 2021
During the last year and a half, the world鈥檚 attention has been focused squarely on SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. While deadly, this virus is only one of many pathogens that threaten our well-being. For many years, scientists have been warning about another microscopic menace: drug-resistant microbes.
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Published on: 4 Oct 2021
Setting the standard in the fight against food fraud
Published on: 15 Jun 2021
[Authors: Bridget O'Brien is a 4th year undergraduate student in the Faculty of Science (Microbiology & Immunology), and an Honours student with Dr Ronholm. This paper stems from her NSERC USRA research project with Dr Ronholm in the summer 2020; Dr Jennifer Ronholm is an Assistant Professor in both the Departments of Animal Science and Food Science, whose research focuses on the microbiome of food-producing animals]
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Published on: 10 Dec 2020
In an age of mass food production and distribution, 星空真人鈥檚 Food Safety and Quality Program has been working toward developing innovative ways to ensure safety in the Canadian and global food supply chain. And with forward-thinking researchers like Dr. Xiaonan Lu at its helm, the program is well on its way to fulfilling that mission.
Lu, the newly appointed Ian and Jayne Munro Chair in Food Safety and a leader in the field of food safety and food microbiology, is excited to shift the research he started seven years ago to 星空真人鈥檚 Macdonald Campus.
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Published on: 14 Sep 2020
Plus de 450 personnes ont officiellement contract茅 la bact茅rie salmonelle de souche Newport au Canada cet 茅t茅, dont 23 au Qu茅bec. Selon l鈥橝gence canadienne d鈥檌nspection des aliments (ACIA), une personne en est possiblement morte, tandis que 66 personnes ont d没 锚tre hospitalis茅es.
...Qu鈥檈st-ce que la salmonellose聽?
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Published on: 9 Sep 2020
| Caitlin MacDougall
During the 2020 edition of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) annual conference, held virtually on July 13-15, two Macdonald Campus Food Science teams representing 星空真人 competed as finalists in the prestigious 2020 Smart Snacks for Kids Product Development Competition and the 2020 Developing Solutions for Developing Countries Competition.
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Published on: 22 Jul 2020
Jennifer Ronholm, professeure adjointe au D茅partement des sciences animales et au D茅partement des sciences de l鈥檃limentation et de la chimie agricole, nous parle de s茅curit茅 au super march茅 et offre quelques conseils pratiques afin de se prot茅ger du SARS-CoV-2 lorsque vous faites vos courses. Dans le cadre de ses recherches, elle utilise des techniques de s茅quen莽age de prochaine g茅n茅ration pour 茅tudier l鈥檈ffet du microbiome des animaux destin茅s 脿 la consommation sur la qualit茅 des aliments ainsi que l鈥檈ffet du microbiome des aliments sur la sant茅 humaine.
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Published on: 18 Jun 2020
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