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Editorial
This Millennial year sees the ®ftieth anniversary of the ®rst publication of the
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. During these years the journal has
striven to record the highest quality, international, scienti®c research into all
aspects of agriculture and food production. Despite much of the technological
and scienti®c development over this time, and consequent changes in harvesting,
storage, conversion and food production techniques, many of the problems
continue to present a challenge to world scientists.
As an interdisciplinary association, the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI)
seeks to meet such challenges on a worldwide basis by connecting science and
industry. In its role as a learned society, the SCI has published for 50 years the
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, a leading international journal that
covers all aspects of agriculture and food production, with a special interest in
how the methods involved in primary foodstuff production affect the quality of
the ®nal food as eaten by the consumer. SCI also publishes three other leading
scienti®c journals (Pest Management Science, Polymer International, Journal ofChemical Technology and Biotechnology) that also have a strong interdisciplinary
content.
As a Journal whose remit includes reporting on advances at the interfaces of
food and agricultural sciences, the Journal of the Science of Food and Agricultureencompasses many disciplines, being a major forum for the exchange of
information from the leading research teams from across the World. Such an
international interface demands high standards, and the SCI is committed to
maintaining the quality of JSFA into the next Millennium. Indeed our current
Impact Factor (calculated by the Institute for Scienti®c Information) places
JSFA in the top ®ve agriculture/food journals in the world. The Journal is found
in most important libraries on every continent, with its past issues forming an
important resource and archive of continuing relevance to the agricultural and
food research communities. In concert with our parent organisation, the Editors
of JSFA are always looking to the future, sensitive to the needs of our subscribers
and our submitting authors. We aim to make the best use of current and future
print and electronic communication technology, in partnership with John Wiley,
to continue to ensure that JSFA is widely accessible to all who would bene®t from
its contents.
Through this Millennial year, the Journal plans a series of special features to
celebrate both the Millennium and our anniversary. In particular we propose to
publish a series of critical commentary reviews that will both analyse progress in a
®eld and suggest important directions for progress into the new Millennium. As
Editors we are excited by these developments. We hope that you, too, will share in
the excitement appropriate to the new Millennium.
Rodney Dowdell David S Reid
Co-Editors in Chief
The Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture thanks all thosewho have acted as referees of papers in the past year
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture J Sci Food Agric 80:1 (2000)
# 2000 Society of Chemical Industry. J Sci Food Agric 0022±5142/2000/$17.50 1
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