U.S. Food Scientist Wins 2007 World Food Prize
Environment News Service, June, 2007
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> Dr. Philip Nelson of Purdue University was today named recipient of the $250,000 World Food Prize for 2007. The U.S. food scientist is being honored for his post-harvest technologies that allow the large-scale clean storage, packaging and transportation of fruits and vegetables.
Dr. Nelson was announced as the 2007 Laureate by Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, president of the World Food Prize Foundation, at a ceremony at the U.S. State Department.
"Dr. Nelson’s pioneering work, which began with tomatoes and later included a variety of seasonal crops, has made it possible to produce ultra-large scale quantities of high quality food," said Quinn. "This food can then be stored for long periods of time and transported to all corners of the...
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