Robert C. Baker is most famously accredited with the development of the  chicken nugget. He is also behind the development of  other poultry products, such as chicken and turkey hot dogs, and turkey ham. Prior to 1980, chicken was packed on ice and shipped to grossers and restaurants. Baker developed improved modified atmosphere and vacuumed sealed packaging for transporting poultry meat. These same  packaging techniques are used to this day.

The club is the closest thing to Hershey's factory right on campus!

The Cornell Institute of Food Science won the 2010 Grocery Manufacturers Association Food Safety Award on Apr. 28.  The award honors individuals or organizations that demonstrate a longstanding commitment to improving food safety. 

A January outbreak of Salmonella caused search for the culprit.  With the use of modern biotechnology, genetic sampling and detective work, investigators traced the source of the food pathogen to a distributor of pepper.

On March 18, Prof. Marion Nestle, nutrition, food science and public health, New York University, visited Cornell.  She spoke at the Cornell Center for Public Affairs Colloquium. Her talk, entitled “The Food Revolution: Implications for Public Policy,” addressed different issues, including food security, marketing, obesity and the food revolution. 

When you buy strawberries at the grocery store, do you think about the last person who touched them? As a food safety expert, Prof. Robert Gravani, food science, does.

When are women at their highest peak of fertility? At their lowest? How can women choose between motherhood and their careers? And how does female anatomy cause such a dilemma? New research is helping women make the difficult decision, and modern technologies are allowing women to choose entirely new paths to motherhood.