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The details of these proposals will be discussed at the 1983 Council meeting during the Annual Conference in Ottawa. If you have any suggestions regarding these proposals, please let your views be known to any of the Committee members (P. Jelen, Alberta, Committee Chairman; R.c. Jenne, Ontario; E.D. Jackson, Nova Scotia; C. Jensen, B. C.), or contact your Section's Voting Director for the 1983 Council meeting. We hope that working together we can "maximize the return on the CIFST investment" in this important area of cooperation between individual Sections and the Institute as a whole. Or. P. Jelen Chairman National Conference Committee Report Chairman - M.B. McConnell, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba (1985) Members - D.J. Schroder, Alberta Agri- culture, Edmonton, Alberta (1983) c.J. Randall, Agriculture Canada, Otta- wa, Ontario (1984) E.S. Idziak, McGill University, Mon- treal, Quebec (1986) T.J. McEwen, Canadian Food Products Development Centre, Portage la Prairie, Manitoba (Special Project) A.H.M. Greene, Executive Director, CIFST, Ottawa, Ontario (Ex-officio). Committee Activities The conference committee has been charged with carrying out some house- keeping tasks and some special assign- ments. Dr. E.S. Idziak has replaced retiring member Dr. T.J. McEwen on the committee. Committee material on file which is older than three years is being collated and forwarded to Mr. LB. Camp- bell for storage in Records and Archives. The committee has requested that sections bid for the 1989 Conference. The committee has been requested to philosophically examine the form and for- mat of the Annual Conference, re- examine the functions of the local Confer- ence Committee and recommend which routine functions might best be handled through a national office. Also the com- mittee was requested to establish guide- lines for the conference committee concerning a policy with respect to com- plimentary conference registrations and items that might best be handled by the local conference committee for the National Council. Finally the conference committee was requested to examine the Exhibits Component of the National Con- ference since this has been a very impor- tant function of many of our conferences in the past. An updated version of the Guidelines for Annual Conferences has been finalized by Or. McEwen and will be iv / Affaires de I'Institut available for discussion and approval at the pre Conference Council meeting in Ottawa. M.B. McConnell Chairman Awards Committee 1982-83 Mid- Year Report Committee Membership Chairman - L Altosaar, University of Ottawa Members - J. Richards, UBC (Chairman-elect) G. Andrich, St. Boniface D. McPeak, McGill (Student rep.) G. Mazza, Morden A. Crawford, Griffith Labs J. Sisler, Winnipeg The call for nominations for all awards was prepared and forwarded to the Jour- nal editor as required. Some deadline dates were altered to allow for better eval- uation of awards and to increase submis- sion to Undergraduate Award papers. Award application forms and related information were circulated to Section Chairmen and Universities in early Janu- ary, and an ad hoc committee to prepare and grade the Givaudan Centennial Award exam has been formed. The committee is reviewing the criteria for the Givaudan award, together with the Student Affairs Committee and Givaudan Ltd. The 1983 Canada-Wide National Science fair will be held in Saskatoon and the CIFST Section there has been con- tacted regarding possible judges and CIFST Prize presentation. Mr. Alex Hunt, Conference Chairman for the Ottawa 1983 meeting has been contacted to arrange for a prestigious Awards Presentation Ceremony, and Or. Norman Tape, Technical Program Chair- man for Horizons 83 has been contacted to arrange for suitable presentation of Graduate and Undergraduate Student papers as posters. Regional Communicators Update The Regional Communicator Project was established by the CIFST a number of years ago in an ongoing attempt to im- prove public knowledge regarding food issues. Currently, there are eleven mem- bers of CIFST serving in this capacity. Their activities are varied, as you will see below, and range from public speaking, radio and TV to information resources for reporters. Several surveys document the misinformation that exists about proces- sed foods and food additives and the ex- pressed need by consumers for more in- formation on these issues. The Regional Communicators help to meet this need for reliable information. The purpose of this column is to pro- vide an update and overview of the activi- ties of the Regional Communicators across the country. Dr. Norman Haard, Memorial Uni- versity, reports he's been listed with the University Speaker's Bureau. Something new in the food field is the establishment of CANARAMA by the provincial govern- ment under the direction of Jocelyn Wood. Several of these centres provide expertise, pilot plant equipment and even sell the cans to consumers for canning such commodities as moose meat and berries. Dr. Thomas Gill in Halifax states the main issue on the East Coast is the estab- lishment by the federal government of subjective grading of seafoods. This is de- signed to prevent the same price being charged for fish, regardless of the time of the catch (e.g. three day old fish costs the same as fresh). There is apparently a fair bit of resistance by the industry due to the potential bias of a subjective scheme. In Saint John the local CBC strike has put a damper on the communications activity of Mary Losier-Roderick. Nor- mally she appears on the CBC interview program "Midday". She is interviewed for about ten minutes on various concerns relating to the Health Protection Branch, including many food issues. Initial contact was made through her work as Education- al Consultant with the Branch. According to Or. Oaryll Wood in the Ottawa region, enquiries have been re- ceived from a CBC Toronto radio reporter and from a journalist with the Ottawa Citizen regarding irradiated foods. Apparently the media seems to be positive about irradiation despite current anti- radiation sentiments among consumers. The increasing popularity of bulk buying of foods in warehouse stores is a new concern in the Ottawa area. Open bulk containers of dried frUits, nuts, flour, grains, peanut butter etc. have raised con- cerns among regulatory authorities and municipal health officers. At the present time there are no regulations governing this type of retailing. Or. Wood says that price priorities have thrown packaging concerns out the window for many con- sumers. Or. John deMan at the University of Guelph appeared on a half-hour interview with CJOY that dealt mostly with food additives. In reply to a scandal-oriented article in the London Free Press about chemicals in ice cream, Or. deMan wrote a letter to the editor. The letter was printed but the editor added a detrimental note to the effect: "We print anything". Dr. M.B. McConnell of Winnipeg is planning a meeting with local newspaper people to discuss the utilization of the Re- gional Communicator network. J. IllS!. Call, Sci. [('(lIl1o!. Alimenr. Vol. 16. No. 2. 1983
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