What is Food Science?

Food Security

Access to nutritionally adequate and safe food.

Food Processing

Any deliberate change in food occurring between its point of origin and its availability for consumption.

McNary-Mapes Amendment

Authorizes FDA standards of quality and fill-of-container for canned food, excluding meat and milk products.

Hydroponic Crops

Crops grown with their roots suspended in liquid nutrient solutions.

Infant Formula Act

Establishes special FDA controls to ensure necessary nurtitional content and safety of infant formula.

Organic Foods Production Act

Establishes the National Organic Program and its authority to develop and enforce laws covering agricultural products sold, labeled, or represented as "organic" within the US

Pure Food and Drug Act

First law affecting food science, prohibits interstate commerce of misbranded and adulterated food, drinks, and drugs.

Food Safety Modernization Act

Gives the FDA power to order recall of tainted food.

First Certified Color Regulations

Identifies seven colors as acceptable use in processed foods.

Adulteration

Lowered quality and safety of a product caused by adding inferior ingredients that may be toxic.

Anti-Tampering Act

Makes it a crime to tamper with packaged consumer products.

Food analogs

Natural or manufactured substances used in place of foods or food components.

Egg Safety Rules

Prescribes measures for preventing Salmonella that apply to all egg producers with at least 3,000 laying hens whose shell eggs are not processed with a treatment to ensure their safety, such as pasteurization.

Food Scientists

Professionals trained to know the biology and chemistry of foods and the processes used to improve and preserve them.

Delaney Clause

Prohibits the use of any additive in food that is found to cause cancer.

Food Allergy Labeling and Consumer Protection Act

Requires a food allergy warning on a label of food products containing a protein derived from any peanuts, soybeans, cow's milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, and wheat.

Gould Amendment

Requires accurate labeling of food packages with weight, measure, or numerical count.

Meat Inspection Act

Requires inspection of all meat sold.

Country of Origin Labeling

Requires retailers to inform customers of the source of certain foods.

Saccharin Study and Labeling Act

Stops FDA from banning the chemical sweetener but requires a label warning that saccharin has been found to cause cancer in laboratory animals.

Cryogenic Liquids

Substances that are in liquid form at extremely low temperatures.

Mandatory HACCP Programs

The current laws affecting food science, prescribes industry food safety programs for seafood, juice, meat, and poultry.

Food Defense

The protection of food products from intentional adulteration by biological, chemical, physical, or radioactive agents.

Nutrition

The study of food components and their use by the body to sustain life and health.

Food Science

The study of the nature of food, the causes of deterioration, the principles underlying food processing,and the improvement of foods for the consuming public.

Farm to Table

This term describes the path of food from the growth of raw product, through processing, preparation, and presentation, to the final consumer.