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AOCS Lipid Oxidation and Quality Division
Newsletter December 2007

Message From the Chair
Jim Barren

Beer Training in Seattle
As mentioned in the last newsletter, a beer tasting and training session at the next AOCS meeting as a Lipid Oxidation and Quality Division fundraiser and new member recruitment activity was proposed at the Division Council Meeting on Sunday, May 13. This event would be held on either Saturday or Sunday night. We would have a master brewer, skilled in teaching the art of beer tasting to lead the event. We put out a survey in the last newsletter to get more input on this idea. Our survey and results were as follows:

Question	% Yes Responses
Would you be interested in a beer tasting event?	100
If this event were held on a Saturday or Sunday night, would you come?	100
If this event were held on a Monday or Tuesday night, would you come?	83.3
If this event cost $35 for a member and $50 for a non-member, would you attend?	100

I have had some initial discussions with AOCS staff, and we are planning to do the following:

• Sell tickets at registration to help get a better advance headcount for planning purposes. We anticipate limiting this to 50 people the first time around to see how well it works.
• Work with Jeff Newman to help organize this event in Seattle. This includes obtaining any necessary licenses, clearances, rooms, etc. from the convention organizers.
• Have a charge for the session ($ amount to be determined) & track attendance.

Please contact Jim Barren (JBarren@Kalsec.com) or John Weaver (JWeaver@Kalsec.com) if you have any other thoughts on this event.

Program Plans
Several people attended the roundtable discussion in Québec City this year, and all contributed to tentative program suggestions for next year. The program is currently as listed below, but the ‘Oxidation of Sterols’ sessions is going to move to an earlier time – details to follow. I would like to thank Roman Przybylski for suggesting this topic and offering to chair this new session for LOQ. Anyone having questions regarding this program should contact our program chairpersons: Afaf Kamal-Eldin (email: afaf.kamal-eldin@lmv.slu.se) or Usha Thiyam (email: thiyam@cc.umanitoba.ca). I would like to thank the session chairpersons for reviewing their abstracts and inviting speakers for their sessions. The program, at this writing, is as follows:

Mon a.m. Omega 3's and Dairy (Cliff Hall, Mehmet Tulbek) - potential joint session with the Edible Applications Technology Division

Mon p.m. Nutraceutical Lipids (Fereidoon Shahidi and Michael Eskin) - potential joint session with the Health & Nutrition Division (See Doug Bilbus)

Tues a.m. Hot Topic

Tues p.m. Lipid Oxidation in Emulsions (Charlotte Jacobsen, Eric Decker) - also potential joint session with the Edible Applications Technology Division

Wed a.m. General Antioxidants (Karen Schwarz, Usha Thiyam)

Wed p.m. Oxidation of Sterols (Roman Przybylski)

Poster Session (Jim Barren)

History of AOCS
The 2009 Meeting will be the 100th anniversary of AOCS. Divisional is trying to put together a timeline of events over the last 100 years. Do you have photos or stories of important events involving LOQ or AOCS from the last 100 years that you can share? If so, please contact Jim Barren (JBarren@Kalsec.com), Charlotte Jacobsen (cja@dfu.min.dk), John Weaver (JWeaver@Kalsec.com) or Cliff Hall (Clifford.Hall@ndsu.edu) and we will get those items to those in charge of the timeline.

Jim

Also in this newsletter:

Newsletter Sponsorship

Member Highlight: Clifford Hall, Ph.D.

Technical Session Highlights

Lipid Oxidation and Quality Division Profile, by Catherine Watkins (from inform)

Bylaw Changes

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