Bekkers Elected President and CEO of Gold Kist Inc.
ATLANTA, July 6 /PRNewswire/ -- John Bekkers of Atlanta has been elected president and chief executive officer of Gold Kist Inc. by the board of directors of the nation's second largest and only farmer-owned chicken processor. He succeeds Gaylord O. Coan, who retired July 6 as chief...

Food safety revolution: irradiation technology.
Hamburger patties, already packaged for retail and boxed in brown cardboard cartons, travel up a conveyor belt inside a high-tech research facility at Texas A & M University. The cartons travel to a windowless, concrete room, where they are zapped with an invisible beam carrying 10 million electron volts...

Damn If They Ain't Flew. (Book Reviews).
Damn If They Ain't Flew. By William A. Schoneberger. Virginia Beach, Va.: The Donning Company, 2002. [Aero Club of Southern California]. Illustrations. Photographs. Index. Pp. 96. ISBN: 1-57864-163-2 On the day that the Wright brothers made their first successful flight in North Carolina, an Outer Banks resident...

Device replaces cotton bale ties.
A device has been designed by ASAE member W. Stanley Anthony to make replacing damaged ties on cotton bales simpler. Anthony, an agricultural engineer, is the research leader at the Agricultural Research Service's Cotton-Ginning Research Unit in Stoneville, Miss. About 85 million bales of cotton are produced...

Technology presentations. (ASAE 2002: Engineering for a Sustainable World).
Complete session information for presentations and speakers is listed on the ASAE website: http://www.asae.org/meetings/am2002/technical. html MONDAY SESSIONS MORNING SESSIONS 1 Microwave and RF Heating/Drying in Food and Agricultural Application (Sponsoring Committee: FPE-703, IET-348) Moderator: Juming Tang, Washington State Univ. Pullman, WA...

Blue revolution: fish farming is rapidly becoming a bigger enterprise than beef ranching. Critics contend it is also destroying land along coasts and hastening the demise of wild fish.
JUST SOUTH OF THE U.S. BORDER ALONG MEXICO'S WEST COAST LIES A SWATH of the Sonoran Desert that defies expectation. It was here, almost 50 years ago, that the green revolution was born when agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug bred a bountiful and scrappy form of wheat that was eventually...

Program Overview.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW FOOD & PROCESS ENGINEERING KEYNOTE SPEAKER - General Session MONDAY, JULY 29 8:30-9:45 AM 10 AM - 1 Microwave and RF Heating/Drying 12 NOON in Food and Agricultural Application - FPE-703, IET-348 2 Food Quality Issues for Postharvest Operations - FPE-71 3 Emerging Technologies in Food Processing...

Evaluation of the neutral red retention assay as a stress response indicator in cultivated mussels (Mytilus spp.) in relation to seasonal and environmental conditions.
The neutral red assay (NRA) was evaluated as an indicator of stress response in mussels that were held under various culture situations. The NRA measures retention time of neutral red dye in the hemocyte organelle, the lysosome, which can be correlated to the condition of a mussel under stressful...

Texas A&M University. (Member News).
Calvin B. Parnell, P.E. and John M. Sweeten, P.E. of Texas A&M University; Robert V. Avant, P.E. of the Texas Food and Fibers Commission; Roger Isom of the California Cotton Ginners & Growers; and Phillip J. Wakelyn of the National Cotton Council of America are all members of the...

Ready or not: How would Sarasota handle a bioterrorist attack? (Health Report).
If there's anything that Don Hermey, safety officer for Sarasota Memorial Hospital, would like people here to know, it's that Sarasota has been planning for bioterrorism long before the nation suffered its first anthrax attacks. "There's a naivete that we're starting from the ground up," says Hermey,...