The first thing needing to be done is upgrading Food research to be an equal with other sciences. I entered food research having come out of materials science with a knowledge of instrumentation. For the most part, regarding instrumentation access, food felt antiquated when compared against other sciences such as chemistry, materials or even biology. I entered the field of food forensics and immediately felt the need to reach our to more advanced labs. I needed instrumentation that did not exist in foods. I built a more advanced food lab and almost immediately found myself overwhelmed with requests to do problem solving. Many problems were decades old and were, as yet, Unsolved. I believe, with the concerns of terrorist activity, it is only time before something happens to our food supply that will be devastating.

Find my book, “Food Forensics Handbook, practice, instrumentation, case studies” at DEStech publishing. It reviews practical application of many of these more advanced methods, along with the instrumentation needed, and how to apply such instrumentation, and what these results should look like. This is why the book was written.