Food Processing, Safety & Technology

Biography

Christopher Smith joined MMU in November 2010 as the Director of the Manchester Food Research Centre and Professor of Food Science at Hollings Faculty.Educated in Liverpool,he took his first degree in Applied Biology followed by a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Salford.He is Editor-in-Chief of Food and Agricultural Immunology and International Journal of Food Science and Technology.He has published over 100 scientific papers, many in the field of Food Science; he has provided chapters for books and spoken at over 150 scientific meetings.He has also been instrumental in organising the biannual Environment and Food Mass Spectrometry Special Interest Group meetings as well as the 2008 IFST Annual Meeting, the First International Chester Food Science and Technology Conference and the Food Nanotechnology Conference.He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Food and Agricultural Immunology Foods.

Research Interest

The role of vitamin D, Utilisation of Food wastes as sources of high value products, Development of assays for the monitoring of food quality and safety, Effects of processing on Food nutrients and bioavailability, Detection of microbial contamination of food, Nutrients in Health and Disease