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Dr. Martin Gooch has been appointed adjunct faculty with the School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, in the College of Management and Economics. Dr. Gooch has 28 years of management experience in the international agri-food industry, having worked in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada on product and process innovation and marketing from a value chain perspective. Awards recognizing his work include the SIAL prize for the “World’s Best New Fruit and Vegetable product of 2002” and in 2013 Bayer Inc.

On October 30, Charles Pillitteri, CEO of Pillitteri Estates Winery, visited Professor Lefa Teng's fourth-year international marketing students to share his experiences and wisdom, and also teach them how to properly taste his award-winning ice wine. Student Mary Claire Bass wrote an article on the experience. Read "A Taste of International Marketing."

In this article from Better Farming, Professor Sylvain Charlebois comments on the naming restrictions that will be imposed on food products by the Canada-EU trade agreement (CETA). Charlebois emphasizes Europe's need to protect its gastronomic history and culture. Read "Canada-EU trade agreement restricts name use for food products"

Tuesday was a golden day for fourth-year BComm student Chris Hemmerich after he earned a provincial title at the Ontario University Athletics (OUA) golf championships and was named to Team Canada’s 2014 national golf team for the second consecutive year. Read more on Chris Hemmerich

On October 17, CME hosted a World Food Day event featuring a panel of experts discussing sustainable food strategies. Panelists included CME's Associate Dean Professor Sylvain Charlebois, Canada Research Chair in Global Human Security, Evan Fraser, and Gawaher Atif, the United Nations World Food Programme's Deputy Director of Private Sector Partnerships. The discussion was moderated by George Stroumboulopoulos. Read more about this event in this article from At Guelph.

Food safety and food waste have been hot topics recently in various media sources. In the following articles from The Globe and Mail, Professor Sylvain Charlebois discusses these two issues.

Following the events surrounding XL Foods, Charlebois comments on the possible benefits of changing oversight responsibilities of Canada’s food-safety system. Read "Feds discussed bailing out XL Foods to ease fallout from beef recall"

Everyone is talking about food waste. Professor Sylvain Charlebois continues the conversation with an interview on the Bill Good Show on CKNW AM 980 in Vancouver. Check out his interview at the top of hour 2 on October 7.

On October 3, CME welcomed experts to the UGSRP forum to discuss sustainability in Canadian foodservice. Author Jonathan Bloom, Professor Bruce McAdams and Robin Poirier from Ocean Wise spoke to about 100 people about the effects of wasting food and employing unsustainable practices. The Guelph Mercury covered the event. Read "It’s time to watch our food waste lines, experts say"

Professor Louise Grogan's research on women in the Former Soviet Union is front and centre today in At Guelph. In the article, the economics professor tells At Guelph that women are becoming less modern than the generations preceding them. Read "Women Make Little Progress in Former Soviet Union"

On today's episode of The Current, Professor Sylvain Charlebois is interviewed about the meaning of best before dates and how we react to them. This interview is part of a larger story on wasting food that might be past its best before date, but is still fine to eat. Listen to "What does the "best before" date on food packaging really mean?"