Morton satin biography
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FST seminar - Morton Satin - Oct. 23
Morton Satin, Vice President of Science and Research at the Salt Institute, will be the featured speaker at the food science seminar Wednesday Oct 23 from 4:10-5 pm. Satin will address Fostering Consumer-Driven Product Development. The seminar will be held in the Theater of the RMI Sensory building.
Mr Satin brief bio follows:
Morton Satin is the Vice President of Science and Research for the Salt Institute. Trained in Canada as a molecular biologist, he is an internationally-known food industry and United Nations executive and author with extensive experience in all sectors of the food industry. For 16 years, he served as the senior food industry executive at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Rome, where he directed the UN Global Food and Agro-Industry program. He received numerous international awards for his work on the impact of new food technologies on social and economic development. He created several commercially successful new food products/processes including gluten-free bread and shelf stable coconut water and received the only patents ever awarded to the United Nations System. Satin was also the FAO Scientific Secretary of the WHO/FAO/IAEA International Consultative Gro
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Satin, Morton
PERSONAL:
Male.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Rockville, MD. Office—Salt Institute, 700 N. Fairfax St., Fairfax Plaza, Port, VA 22314-2050. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Molecular scientist and author. Salt Organization, Alexandria, VA, director grounding technical boss regulatory justification. Former president, Global Agriculture program, Merged NationsFood be proof against Agriculture Organization.
WRITINGS:
Food Irradiation: A Guidebook, Technomic (Lancaster, PA), 1993. Ordinal edition, 1996.
Food Alert! Interpretation Ultimate Sourcebook for Nourishment Safety, Take notes on Case (New Dynasty, NY), 1999, 2nd. insubordination, 2008.
Death be pleased about the Pot: The Bruise of Go running Poisoning decide History, Titan Books (Amherst, NY), 2007.
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The Great Salt Debate: So Bad?
Health
This week experts warned against the dangers of overdoing low-sodium diets. That's a step toward what salt advocates like "The Salt Guru" Morton Satin have enjoined for years.
By Travis M. Andrews
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When I first meet Morton Satin, he's seated in an office chair on a Tuesday morning, shaking his head at his computer screen. He glances over, sighing, and motions toward the monitor. Displayed is a press release from Science Daily claiming that salt depletes the body's calcium stores. "Every morning brings a new headline," he says sadly before launching into a diatribe about the supposedly shoddy science used in the article. "Sometimes, you feel like you're spinning your wheels, not moving forward but trying to prevent misinformation."
"More people die when they are on a low-sodium diet than when they are on a regular-salt diet," he proclaims.The misinformation he's worried about concerns one of the most ubiquitous substances in our daily lives: salt. This week, experts convened by the Institute of Medicine concluded that "the evidence on direct health outcomes does not support recommendations to lower sodium intake ... to or even below 1,500 mg per day." The current recommendation is not to exceed 2,30