Cornell, Vermont To Establish Northeast Dairy Research Center
ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell
University and the University of
Vermont will Jointly establish a
Northeast Dairy Foods Research
Center to step up research on dairy
products to meet consumers’
changing needs.
Another major goal of the center
is to increase the number of food
scientists needed for the nation’s
food manufacturing industry,
according to the National Dairy
Promotion and Research Board,
the sponsor of the center.
The board, the dairy industry
and the two universities will
finance the center’s research
projects and other activities with
approximately #l.B million a year
for five years, according to
Richard A. Ledford, professor and
chairman of the Department of
Food Science in the New York
State College of Agriculture and
Life Sciences at Cornell.
The national dairy board’s share
is 1600,000 per year. The New York
dairy industry has [fledged to kick
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in more than $600,000 per year,
Ledford said.
The Northeast Dairy Foods
Research Center is one of six such
centers to be established in various
parts of the country. Cornell and
the University of Vermont, along
with nine other universities, were
designated by the National Dairy
Board to form these research
centers.
“We are now working out with
representatives of the University
of Vermont those details necessary
for the establishment of the
proposed research center,”
Ledford said.
Established in 1963 by Congress
to promote the nation’s dairy in
dustry, the National Dairy
Promotion and Research Board
hailed its move to establish six
regional dairy research centers as
“a boon to the entire dairy in
dustry.”
The board pointed out that the
proposed research centers will
“catalyze further advances in
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dairy, product research and
processing technology and will
strengthen the dairy industry's
position as the food industry’s
leader in biotechnology.”
Cornell food scientist David
Barbano, who has worked on the
proposal submitted to the dairy
board, said that changes in con
sumers’ attitudes toward foods and
nutrition, changes in the types and
number of meals eaten away from
home and shifts in demographic
trends, among other factors, are
expected to provide new
marketing and growth op
portunities for the dairy industry.
“To capitalize on these op
portunities, the dairy industry will
need to have the basic scientific
and technical information to tailor
dairy products to meet changing
consumer needs,” he said. “The
establishment of a Joint dairy
research center at Cornett and the
University of Vermont will provide
scientific, technical and marketing
support to help meet the changing
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needs of the Northeast dairy
product manufacturing industry.”
According to Barbano, work at
the center will focus on dairy
product development; im
provement of the quality and
safety of milk and dairy products;
dairy product processing and
engineering; chemistry and
microbiology of dairy products;
nutritional attributes; develop
ment of standardized methods for
analysis and testing of dairy foods
and ingredients; and product
packaging technology, among
other areas of research.
A significant portion of the
research work is expected to be
carried out in a new food
processing and development
laboratory now under construction
at Cornell; it*s scheduled for
completion this fall. The
laboratory is a major addition to
research facilities of the Depart
ment of Food Science.
The universities designated by
the National Dairy Board to
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establish five other dairy research
centers in other parts of the
country are the University of
Wisconsin in Madison, the
University of Minnesota, South
Dakota State, Utah State, Oregon
State, the University of California
at Davis, California Polytechnic
and State University, North
Carolina State and Mississippi
State.
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