Food Technology Laboratory

Functional Foods and Packaging

To improve ingredients, additives, nutrition, and packaging of food products across the supply chain with expertise to enhance functionality of food through innovations in nutrition, ingredients, and packaging to improve health, shelf-life, and the consumer experience.

Food Safety and Quality

To advance research, teaching, extension, and outreach programs to innovate and promote effective farm-to-fork measures for ensuring the microbial and chemical safety, nutritional content, and desirable sensory attributes of foods achieved through our expertise in microbial, chemical, and sensory analysis of foods and in novel food safety intervention strategies.