Chemicals in Our Food – Separating Sense from Nonsense
Wednesday, May 7th | 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Every day we are buffeted about by a tsunami of information and misinformation about our food supply. Often synthetic additives are portrayed as villains while natural substances are heroes. The fact is that the relationship between food and health is very complicated, and it takes careful scientific scrutiny to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Session Speaker
Joe Schwarcz, Ph.D., CM
Director of Office for Science and Society, McGill University
Joe Schwarcz, Ph.D., CM is Director of McGill University’s “Office for Science and Society” which has the mission of separating sense from nonsense. He is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching chemistry and for interpreting science for the public. He was the first non-American to win the American Chemical Society’s prestigious Grady-Stack award for popularizing chemistry. “Dr Joe” has hosted a radio show on science for forty-five years, has appeared hundreds of times on television, writes a regular newspaper column and is the author of nineteen best-sellers. He has been awarded four honorary doctorates and teaches a course on “Food and Nutrition” that with 2700 students holds the record for the largest enrollment for any university course in Canada. Professor Schwarcz is also an amateur magician, often spicing up his presentations with a little magic.