Chair's Message
Welcome to the SCI Food Technical Interest Group homepage. Our continuing aim within the Group is to arrange meetings which are topical, challenging, and of interest to Members. We are part of the the Agri-Food Hub and also please also check our sister group Lipids as well as our calendar of events.
We are very keen to encourage the interest of young scientists in the foods sector who are about to start on their careers. As such, we hold an annual Young Scientists Meeting in collaboration with the Northern Branch of the Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST). At this meeting a shortlist of undergraduate and post-graduate students present their research to a panel of judges, and the winners are given a cash prize, a year's free membership of SCI, and are invited onto the Food Group organising committee as Young Ambassadors. The following year they are then invited to present again at an evening meeting after our AGM, entitled 'Food For Thought'.
We welcome new ideas for meetings - so if you feel that a subject is worthy of more attention, whether as an evening meeting or a full day, then please let us know. We also welcome anyone wanting to join the committee. If you want to come along to a meeting to see what goes on before making that leap to formally joining the committee, you will be very welcome. The committee meets typically four times a year (usually in Belgrave Square, but occasionally at Reading University) and the dates are arranged at least nine months in advance, so if interested, please come along.
Andy Kerridge, Chairman Food Group