The Bernard L. Oser Award has been awarded since 2000 by the Institute of Food Technologists

Institute of Food Technologists

The Institute of Food Technologists or IFT is an international, non-profit professional organization for the advancement of food science and technology. It is the largest of food science organizations in the world, encompassing 22,000 members worldwide as of 2006. It is referred to as "THE Society...

 (IFT). It is awarded to contributions to the scientific knowledge of food ingredient

Ingredient

An ingredient is a substance that forms part of a mixture . For example, in cooking, recipes specify which ingredients are used to prepare a specific dish. Many commercial products contain a secret ingredient that is purported to make them better than competing products...

 safety or for leadership in establishing principles for food safety

Food safety

Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. This includes a number of routines that should be followed to avoid potentially severe health hazards....

 evaluation or regulation. This award is named for Bernard L. Oser

Bernard L. Oser

Bernard L. Oser was an American biochemist and food scientist who was involved in vitamin analysis.-Education and early career:Oser received his Ph.D at Fordham University in 1927...

 (1899-1995), a food science

Food science

Food science is a study concerned with all technical aspects of foods, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption, an ideology commonly referred to as "from field to fork"...

 researcher who was involved in nutrition

Nutrition

Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet....

 and food safety

Food safety

Food safety is a scientific discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness. This includes a number of routines that should be followed to avoid potentially severe health hazards....

 of ingredients. He also was IFT President in 1968-9 who the last surviving charter member of IFT in 1939.

Award winners received a USD 3000 honorarium

Honorarium

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 and a plaque from the Bernard L. Oser Endowment Fund of the IFT Foundation.

Winners

Year	Winner(s)
2000	Richard L. Hall
2001	Joseph F. Borzelleca
2002	Award not given
2003	Stephen L. Taylor
2004	Andrew G. Ebert
2005	Ian C. Munro
2006	George A. Burdock
2007	Michael W. Pariza
2008	Thomas J. Montville
2009	Adrianus Azzie
2010	Barbara Petersen