2024 Future of Food Symposium

Thursday, May 16, 2024 09:00toFriday, May 17, 2024 17:00

The 2024 Future of Food Symposium aims to highlight innovative discoveries, challenges and perspectives pertaining to tHotel Omni Mont-Royal, 1050 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, QC, H3A 2R6, CA...

How can the use of plastics in agriculture become more sustainable?

Published: 27 September 2023

It is impossible to imagine modern agriculture without plastics—12 million tons are used every year. But what about the environmental consequences? An international team of authors, including...

Four Mac Undergrads Awarded for Outstanding USRA Posters

Published: 20 September 2023

On September 7, thirty two AES undergraduate research awardees shared posters illustrating their summer research jobs....

New and renewed government funding for research in McGill's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

Published: 30 August 2023

Today, the Honourable Randy Boissonnault, Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, on behalf of the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation,...

Stéphane Bayen appointed Chair of the Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry

Published: 16 August 2023

Professor Stéphane Bayen has been appointed as the new Chair of the Department of Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry effective September 1, 2023 until June 30, 2028. Dr. Bayen received his Ph...

Experts: WHO's cancer research agency to list aspartame sweetener a possible carcinogen

Published: 19 July 2023

Aspartame, used in products such as diet sodas and chewing gum, will soon be listed as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" for the first time by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)...

AES research garners support from the 2023 MSSI Ideas Fund

Published: 3 April 2023

The McGill Sustainability Systems Initiative (MSSI) has announced the results of its latest Ideas Fund competition. The Ideas Fund awards seed funding to projects led by McGill researchers,...

Fresh produce contaminated with toxic BPA-like chemicals found in food labels, study finds

Published: 23 March 2023

Steps were taken in Canada to reduce the use of Bisphenol A (BPA), a toxic chemical linked to prostate and breast cancer, commonly found in plastics, the lining of food cans, water bottles, and...

Bayen's fight against food fraud

Published: 2 May 2022

Liquid chromatography coupled to quadrupole time-of-flight (LC-Q/TOF) is proving one of the most comprehensive methods for testing food authenticity, according to Dr Stéphane Bayen, an Associate...

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