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American Association of Cereal Chemists Installs New Board 

St. Paul, Minn. (September 7, 2004) — The American Association of Cereal Chemists (AACC) is pleased to announce the newly elected officials for 2004-2005. The following AACC leadership will be installed at the conclusion of the AACC Annual Meeting, held jointly with the Tortilla Industry Association this year, in San Diego, California, September 19-22, 2004.

Stuart Craig, new president-elect, is the scientific and regulatory affairs manager for Danisco USA Inc. Craig has been an AACC director, annual meeting technical program chair, chair of the Carbohydrate Division, and chair of the Emerging and Priority Issues Committee. Craig was a member of the Dietary Fiber Definition Committee that established AACC leadership on this topic. He currently serves on the Dietary Fiber and Starch Technical Committee and the Scientific Advisory Panel.

Jan Van der Kamp, new international director, is program director of TNO Nutrition and Food Research in Zeist, Netherlands. He is responsible for initiating and reviewing major research programs and strengthening industrial links. As a member of AACC since 1986, van der Kamp has lectured in and chaired numerous symposia at AACC Annual Meetings and several biotechnology symposia. He has served on the AACC Book Committee and in the Biotechnology Division and is a member of the AACC International Committee.

Mary Ellen Camire, newly appointed AACC director, is a professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Maine and director of the Consumer Testing Center. Camire is chair of the AACC Book Acquisitions Committee, and a member of the Publications Panel and of the Dietary Fiber and Starch and Barley and Barley Products technical committees.

George Lookhart, a research chemist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service at the Grain Marketing and Production Research Center in Manhattan, KS, will begin his term as AACC president at the conclusion of the AACC annual meeting.

Other members of the 2004-2005 board include: James Dexter, chair of the board; Elizabeth Knight, treasurer; Filip Arnaut, director; Khalil Khan, director; Sakharam Patil, director; and Virgil Smail, director.

AACC is an international organization of 3,000 professionals who contribute to the research, development, and processing of grains and grain-based products.

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