Institute for Food Safety and Health honored as co-recipient for 2018 Midwest Food Matters Leadership Award

Illinois Tech Institute for Food Safety and Health was honored as a co-recipient with the Flying Food Group, for this year’s 2018 Midwest Food Matters Leadership Award. The award ceremony was held at the Hilton Chicago Hotel on Wednesday, November 13. This award is presented annually to companies or entities who have demonstrated leadership in promoting and supporting the food industry in Chicagoland and the Midwest. All of the net proceeds of the 2018 campaign will support key non-profit business development initiatives that will help the food Industry grow and thrive, including the creation of the Sue Ling Gin Scholarship in Food Safety at IFSH. Past recipients of this award include Abbott Nutrition (2017), John B. Sanfilippo & Son (2016), and Griffith Foods Worldwide (2015).

The Illinois Institute of Technology dignitaries that attended the event are in the photo below— (from left to right), Jason Wan (Associate Director, IFSH; Professor FdSN Illinois Tech), Eric Larson (Illinois Tech Board of Directors), Renee McBrien (Manager Education and Outreach, Illinois Tech), Robert Brackett (Director, IFSH; Vice President, Illinois Tech), Kristin Pfeiffer (FdSN graduate student), Alan Cramb (President, Illinois Tech), Catherine Rolfe (FdSN Ph.D. student), Bob Carlson (Dean, Illinois Tech School of Applied Technology), and Darsh Wasan (Distinguished Motorola Professor of Chemical Engineering, Vice President for International Affairs, Illinois Tech).

Learn more about Institute for Food Safety and Health at www.iit.edu/ifsh

Learn more about Midwest Food Matters at http://www.globalmidwestalliance.org/CAMPAIGN_2018_11_13_Midwest_Food_Matters_Home.html