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Introduction
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Chairman, Food Protection Committee In discharging its responsibility toward assuring that the quantity, kinds, and quality of foods necessary for maintenance of health and productivity of the population are available, the Food Protection Committee has increasingly become conscious of the need of a broad understanding of the contribution which science makes to our food supply and our absolute dependence upon the continuing effective application of scientific knowledge in order to assure continuing abundance of healthful food. During the past three decades great strides have occurred in food production, distribution, marketing, and conservation.
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What are some of the scientific developments and applications which constitute our resources for food production? I include among these the improvement of crops and farm animals by plant and animal breeding; the extension of our scientific understanding of soils and soil needs for maximum production; the ingenious application of our scientific knowledge and resources to meet these needs; and the control of diseases of plants and animals, as well, indeed, as of human diseases.
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Our concern is to assure that these rapidly evolving changes are beneficial and not harmful, that the benefits are associated with a minimum of hazard, that those who bring forth new developments are aware of their responsibility for proper appraisal of these developments prior to widespread application. A major responsibility, therefore, of those concerned with food protection is to assure the fullest sound application of scientific knowledge in order to insure continued availability of adequate healthful foods.
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It is our sincere hope that this symposium will afford a vista of such breadth that those gathered here, as well as those whom we teach and influence, may see in proper perspective the varied concerns, and no longer have vision blocked by unnecessary barriers or by limiting features perhaps desirable in the past, but currently obsolete.
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