There is little doubt that today s food industry is faced with a rapidly changing market landscape. The obvious need to continue to provide consumers with nutritious, delectable, safe, and affordable food products which are also profitable for food manufacturers, as well as the ongoing challenge of ensuring the delivery of adequate nutrition to hundreds of millions of disadvantaged people around the world, appears at least as much as, if not more than, ever to be at odds with the challenges posed by soaring energy and food commodity prices; fast-paced changes in consumer demographics, habits,...