Food Microbiology Food Packaging Foodservice – restaurants. Fruit & Vegetable Products IFT Student Association International Marketing & Management Muscle Foods – meat, poultry, and seafood Nonthermal Processing – food processing through using alternative lethal agents such as high pressure, electric field, UV, ultrasound and cold plasma Nutraceuticals & Functional Foods – Combining nutrition and medicine for healthy living Nutrition Product Development – Developing foods from the laboratory to the general public Quality Assurance – food quality Refrigerated and Frozen Foods – foods that are processed through refrigeration and freezing Sensory and Consumer Sciences Toxicology and Safety Evaluation – food allergy mainly Sections These are usually cities, states, and regions. If a region is mentioned, a city in that region is mentioned which include areas surrounded by the city. AK-SAR-BEN – Nebraska Alamo – San Antonio, Texas Bluegrass – Kentucky Bonneville – Utah British – Great Britain British Columbia – Canadian province Cactus – Arizona Central New Jersey – subsection of New York Section Central Valley – subsection of Northern California section Chicago Dogwood – North Carolina Florida Great Lakes – Michigan Great Plains – South Dakota, subsection of Minnesota section Hawaii Indiana Intermountain – Idaho Iowa Japan Kansas City – Kansas and western Missouri Keystone – Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Lake Erie – Cleveland, Ohio Lewis & Clark Long Island – Brooklyn and Queens, New York Longhorn – Dallas, Texas Louisiana Gulf Coast – New Orleans, Louisiana Magnolia – Mississippi Maryland – includes Delaware and West Virginia Mid-South – Memphis, Tennessee and eastern Arkansas Minnesota New York – New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Staten Island, and Bronx, and parts of northern New Jersey. Northeast – Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont Northern California – San Francisco, Sacramento, Bakersfield Northwest Ohio – Toledo, Ohio Nutmeg – Connecticut Ohio Valley – Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Ozark – Western Arkansas and southwest Missouri Philadelphia – Includes eastern Pennsylvania Pittsburgh – Includes western Pennsylvania Puget Sound – Seattle, Washington and Alaska Rocky Mountain – Colorado and University of Wyoming San Joaquin– Bakersfield, Fresno, California South Eastern – Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina (Dixie: 1950–2007) South Florida – Miami, Florida Southern California – Los Angeles and San Diego St. Louis – includes southern Illinois and eastern Missouri Volunteer – All of Tennessee except Memphis Washington, D.C. – includes Virginia Western New York Wisconsin Student Association The IFT Student Association (IFTSA) has 2000