Food Engineering and Packaging

University of California, Davis

Using Food and Packaging Science and Engineering to Preserve Food Quality

John M. Krochta, Ph.D., P.E. Professor of Food Engineering Director, Packaging and Biopolymer Film Laboratory Department of Food Science and Technology Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering University of California-Davis Davis, CA 95616 Phone: 530-752-2164 Fax: 530-752-4759 E-mail: jmkrochta@ucdavis.edu

Teaching

Introduction to Food Preservation (FST 50)

Food Packaging (FST 131)

Mass Transfer in Food and Biological Systems (EBS 231)

Research

Edible Films and Coatings

Coatings for Paper and Plastic

Polymers from Lactose

Outreach

Peter J. Shields Chair in Dairy Food Science

Graduate Students, Postdocs and Scholars

Jung Han (University of Manitoba), Sabbatical Scholar

Veronica Hernandez (Mexico), Ph.D. Food Engineering

Daniel Lin (Taiwan), Ph.D. Food Science

Seacheol Min (Korea), Post-doc Food Science

Laura Pallas (Georgia), M.S. Food Science

May Janjarasskul (Thailand), Ph.D. Food Science

Staff Research Associate

Jody Renner-Nantz, M.S. Food Science

Links of Interest

Food Science and Engineering Instructional Materials

Institute of Food Technologists

School of Packaging, Michigan State University