Arland Hotchkiss
Lead Scientist @ U.S. Department of Agriculture
Philadelphia, United States
Arland Hotchkiss is a startup investor at U.S. Department of Agriculture in Philadelphia. Arland T. Hotchkiss, Jr. is Lead Scientist in the Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit at the Eastern Regional Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, USA. He is also an Adjunct Graduate Faculty Member at Rutgers University, Department of Food Science, New Brunswick, NJ,USA and served as the Otto Mønsted-Guest Professor at the Technical University of Denmark, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. He leads a functional food research team that includes dairy lactic acid microbial biotechnology, prebiotic/probiotic bioactive food ingredients, novel prebiotics that also inhibit food-borne pathogen adhesion/invasion and play a role in immunomodulation. The author of highly cited journal articles and book chapters, he has served on Cellulose and Beneficial Microbes editorial boards. He has been recognized with several awards including the Melville L. Wolfrom Award from the American Chemical Society, Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry. His technology transfer includes research with the world’s largest fruit and vegetable fiber, pectin and modified citrus pectin food ingredient companies.
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About U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA provides leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, and related issues based on sound public policy, the best available science, and efficient management. USDA strives to be recognized as a dynamic organization that is able to efficiently provide the integrated program delivery needed to lead a rapidly evolving food and agriculturesystem.USDA has created a strategic plan to implement its vision. The framework of this plan depends on these key activities: expanding markets for agricultural products and supporting international economic development, further developing alternative markets for agricultural products and activities, providing the financing needed to help expand job opportunities and improve housing, utilities, and infrastructure in rural America, enhancing food safety by taking steps to reduce the prevalence of foodborne hazards from farm to table, improving nutrition and health by providing food assistance and nutrition education and promotion, and managing and protecting America's public and private lands working cooperatively with other levels of government and the private sector.
U.S. Department of Agriculture Contacts
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David Shapiro-Ilan
Research Entomologist
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Abraham Lincoln
Founder and President
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Arland Hotchkiss
Lead Scientist
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David Branscum
State director for Arkansas Rural Development
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Kathleen Merrigan
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
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