Dr. Guðrún Ólafsdóttir, a food scientist at IFL, recently received an honorary award named after Earl P. McFee. The award was presented at a celebration program in connection with the TAFT 2006 conference, which took place in Quebec City, Canada on October 29. to Nov. 1
The conference was organized WEFTA (West European Fish Technologists Association), an association of scientists in the field of fish industry research in Western Europe and AFTC (Atlantic Fisheries Technologists Conference), a similar organization of scientists on the east coast of North America and Canada.
An old dream of many scientists came true in 2003 when the TAFT 2003 (Trans Atlantic Fisheries Technology Conference) was held in Iceland, where many of the leading scientists from Europe, the United States and Canada in the field of research on seafood and its utilization came together for the first time and compared their books. IFL was responsible for organizing the conference in 2003, and it was considered so successful that another TAFT conference, which would be held in the West Sea in 2006 and Quebec City in Canada, was chosen.
The award is named after Earl P. McFee, who pioneered in the middle of the last century for frozen products from frozen fish blocks and use in fish burgers at McDonalds. The AFTC organization established The Earl P. McFee Award in 1971 for the purpose of recognizing those who deserve special credit for their research and technological development in fish and seafood processing and for promoting the interaction of scientists, industry and government. The emphasis today is on further strengthening the co-operation between AFTC and WEFTA and aiming for joint conferences and research co-operation in the field of seafood.
Many world-renowned researchers in this field have received the award in recent decades, and several of them attended TAFT 2006, including Herb Hultin (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Tom Gill (Dalhousie University, Halifax), Michael Morrissey (Oregon State University). ), Chong Lee (University of Rhode Island), Tire C. Lanier and David Green (North Carolina State University), and Luc Leclerc (Aquatic Products Technology Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Quebec, Canada), who co-organized the conference with Pierre Blier (Québec University, Rimouski). Torger Börresen of the Danish Fish Research Institute DIFRES, which won the award in 2003, presented the award this time, which was in addition to the award, a small statue made by a Canadian artist of Inuit descent.
