“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” This quote, by Carl Sagan, was the start of Dolf DeRovira’s R&D Seminar presentation titled “The Safety of Flavors and Public Perception.”
President & CEO of Flavor Dynamics, DeRovira also mentioned many of the fears and misunderstandings that proliferate in the public’s perceptions about food, including this rather pointless statement by a local news outlet: “Anyone who’s ever read a nutrition label knows that our food supply is full of hard-to-pronounce chemicals.”