Institutes

Canada

	FoodNet - Food Processing related information such as food safety, food research expertise, consumer food trends, recipes, and trade leads. Contains links to U.S. Federal Register, USDA trade leads, U.S. Department of Commerce trade databases, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
	PEI Food Technology Centre - provides technical expertise primarily to the agriculture and fisheries industries of Prince Edward Island. Features microbiological, chemical, and sensory laboratories, product development expertise, and a certified pilot plant.

United Kingdom

IFST (Institute of Food Science and Technology) Home Page - Whether scientist, technologist, consumer, journalist, or student, this site provides objective answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about food science and technology and if you are a student or a graduate you can also find information on careers in food science and technology, and on courses available in the UK.

UK Institute of Food Research - Their mission is to 1) perform independent basic and strategic research into key issues of concern to industry, consumers and regulators, with particular emphasis on food safety and preservation, food choice, diet and health, food materials and quality, and bioprocessing; 2) to communicate the results of this research in forms intelligible to our user communities; 3) to provide the primary independent resource for food related science in the UK and Europe; and 4) to take the longer term view, leading the science for new solutions and opportunities.

Australia

CSIRO Division of Food Science and Technology - Provides research and development expertise to enhance and sustain the competitiveness of the Australian food industry. Contains internet resources for food science and technology; factsheets and consumer information leaflets; Food Safety and Hygiene, a bulletin for the Australian food industry; and resources for business, including collections of useful papers, news sources, local Internet access providers, etc.

Europe

	Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research - Research at the DLO Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research (RIVO-DLO) is focused on biological, chemical, microbiological, biochemical, technical and technological aspects of the exploitation and management of aquatic ecosystems in the sea, coastal and inland waters. The results of these investigations are used to provide the Government and the European Union with scientific information, as a basis for their fishery policies and the use of marine and fresh water resources. Furthermore the institute provides direct advice to industry- related research capabilities on a contract basis.
	SeafoodNet - Focusing on fish, fishing and seafood industry. Information for consumers, industry and scientist. With news, forum, trade leads, market reports and external links.
	German Federal Research Center for Nutrition
	International Union of Food Science and Technology
	European Federation of Food Science and Technology

United States

The International Food Information Council - Information available includes scientific research, informational materials, graphics, and other information on a broad range of food issues. Some highlights include tips for teachers and consumers, information for reporters, and answers to frequently asked food-related questions

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Food-related Businesses and Business Information

Canada

Forum on Small Food Manufacturing Businesses

United States

	Ball metal can company
	New - Campbell's Soups
	New - Coca-Cola
	Enrich International
	New - Frito-Lay
	New - Gerber
	New - Hershey
	Industrial Market Research International
	New - Kelloggs
	New - M&M chocolates
	Monsanto
	New - Nabisco
	Nutrigenie
	Provision Online
	New - Quaker Oats
	Strategic Resources Group

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Government Resources

Canada

	Health Canada/Sante Canada
	Fisheries and Oceans
	Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada ACEIS Home page - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Electronic Information System. Contains news, trade information, policies, commodity prices, regulations, federal agri-food programs, and agri-science and technology information. AgriWeb - A national directory of Internet resources and sites in Canada relating to Canadian agriculture and agri-food topics. Information is searchable based on geographical area, subject, or type of organization.

United States

	FedWorld Information Network
	U.S. Internet Law Library Code of Federal Regulations
	Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
	Centre for Disease Control
	USDA gopher
	USDA Food and Nutrition Information Centre

Other

International Food Data Systems Project

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Universities

Canada

	Department of Agricultural Food and Nutritional Science, University of Alberta
	University of Manitoba Agriculture and Food Science department
	Acadia University School of Nutrition and Food Science
	Department of Food Science, University of Guelph

United States

	Arizona Nutritional Science
	University of Arkansas Department of Food Science
	Calpoly Food Science and Nutrition Department home page
	University of Colorado
	Cornell University Food Science and Technology
	Davis University gopher
	University of Delaware Agricultural Science Gopher
	University of Florida Food and Agriculture Science
	Conrad Hilton College--University of Houston Food Science and Technology Institute
	University of Illinois Food Science
	Kansas State University Distance Learning
	University of Kentucky
	University of Minnesota Food Science and Nutrition
	New - Mississippi State University, Department of Food Science
	North Carolina State University
	New - Ohio State University
	Oklahoma State University Dept. of Animal Science
	Oklahoma State University Department of Nutrition and Food Management Oregon State Food resources
	Purdue Food Science
	University of Tennesee School of Agriculture
	Texas A&M Institute of Food Science and Engineering Meat Science and Nutrition
	University of Wisconsin-River Falls Food Science
	Biotech Education

Australia and New Zealand

	University of Queensland, Gatton College Food Science and Technology
	New Zealand Institute for Crop & Food Research
	Muscle food research

Europe

	University Hohenheim Institute of Food Technology
	Wageningen Agricultural University, the Netherlands
	Lund University Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry department
	University of Helsinki Department of Food Science
	Royal Veterinary and Agriculture College, Copenhagen - Dairy Science
	Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Department of Agriculture and Food Science University

United Kingdom

	University of Huddersfield
	University of Leeds
	University of Nottingham
	Oxford Brookes University
	University of Reading Department of Food Science and Technology
	University of Strathclyde
	University of Newcastle Dept. of Ag Econ and Food Marketing
	University of Surrey
	Manchester Metropolitan University

Internet Search

Search Engines

	Web Crawler - considered to be one of the more intuitive "spider" sites. This free services was developed by America Online.
	Netscape(tm) Internet Search
	InfoSeek - provides free and fee-for-service searches. Free service sources consist of over 40,0000 WWW pages. Other sources include and index of WWW pages, 10,000 USENet newsgroups, 50 computenewspapers and magazines, several newspaper newswires and company profiles. It is considered to be one of the most efficient sources on the Internet.
	Lycos Internet Catalogue - considered to be one of the most comprehensive "spider" sites o the web. Searches are made free of charge. This site is affiliated with Carnegie-Mellon University.
	Yahoo! - A menu-style directory and comprehensive search engine make this one of the most popular sites on the Internet. Searches are made in only titles and site summary listings so this is not extremely useful to determine site content, but is extremely useful in finding sites pertaining to your area of interest. Developed in Moutian View, California, this site will be partnering with Open Text of Waterloo, Ontario to improve it's search index.
	The Whole Internet Catalogue
	What's New Too!
	Starting Point
	Apollo
	ProNet
	Alta Vista Super Spider - under development by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), this prototype provides searchs of both Web pages and newsgroups.
	InfoSeek
	Alex Gopher Publications search
	MetaCrawler - developed by the University of Washington, this "spider" obtains it's search information from Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Open Text, Yahoo!, and Galaxy.

Lists of Search Engines

W3 Search engine collection

How to be found in the Internet

Make your Web page available for searches

Publications

	The WWW VL Electronic Journals List: Publishers
	E-Zine listing

News and Information

	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - the latest news stories, upcoming features for both CBC radio and CBC television, as well as transcripts of recent CBC programmes.
	Pathfinder - courtesy of Time Warner, allows you to search for information in publications such as TIME magazine, Fortune and Money. Both current and archived issues are available.
	Federal Technology Transfer Opportunities - a resource for people looking for new technologies, research facilities, cooperative research opportunities and expertise in the U.S.

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Food Science mailing lists

OZWINE

Discussion of Australia and New Zealand wine industry. Whatever is in the subject line will be ignored sent back to you. To subscribe, place the following in the body of the message: subscribe ozwine. Make sure there is no other text in the body.

Food-for-thought

All aspects of food with notices for publications, jobs, meetings, etc. Leave the subject line blank and place the following in the body of the message: join food-for-tought firstname(s) lastname. Make sure there is no other text in the body.

BEEF-L

Beef specialists. Leave the subject line blank and place the following in the body of the message: subscribe beef-l name. Make sure there is no other text in the body.

FOODLINK

Discussion list for food safety specialists. Leave the subject line blank and place the following in the body of the message: subscribe foodlink name. Make sure there is no other text in the body.

DNH-PILOT

Diet, Nutrition and Health primarily in Europe.

FDMKTNEWS-MG

Monthly posting of US prices and food availability. Leave the subject line blank and place the following in the body of the message: subscribe fdmktnews-mg. Make sure there is no other text in the body.

FOOD-COMP

A list dedicated to issues related to food science. To subscribe, place the following in the body of the text: subscribe food-comp. This is a hand-managed list so someone will get back to you when they receive your message.

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Newsgroups

Food Science

sci.bio.food-science

Cooking

	rec.food.cooking
	rec.food.historic
	rec.food.preserving
	rec.food.recipes
	rec.food.sourdough
	rec.food.veg
	rec.food.veg.cooking
	rec.food.chocolate

Drinks

	rec.food.drink
	rec.food.drink.beer
	rec.crafts.brewing
	rec.food.drink.coffee
	rec.food.drink.tea

Other interesting sites

General Food Information

	Food Law at University of Minnesota
	Morbidity and Mortality Reports
	Functional Foods for Health
	New - The Blonz guide to Nutrition, Food Science and Health

sci-bio-food-science FAQ

	RTFM news.answers directory
	RTFM sci.answers directory
	RTFM news directory
	RTFM sci directory

Recipes

	Directory of /pub/rec.food.recipes
	Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage
	Food
	Food sites

Beer and Wine

	Brew on Premise
	WWW Virtual Library - Beer and Brewing
	Wine
	The CyberWine Map

Colleges and Universities

	Links to colleges, universities, and schools
	Colleges and Universities on the WWW

Databases

	WWW Virtual Library - Law, Patents, Regulations
	United States Patent searches
	Federal Web Locator
	The WWW Virtual Library Catalog
	U.S. Government Information
	Council of Better Business Bureau
	Internet Yellow Pages
	Thomas Business Register
	Commercial Sites Index

Quality Assurance/Quality Control

	Quality Assurance/Total Quality Management
	ISO 9000 Online
	American Society for Quality Control

Other Useful links

The Global Network Navigator/Koblas Currency Convertor