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Saskatchewan is known as the bread basket of Canada, referring to its strength as a primary producer of agricultural commodities and its contributions to agro-biological science and biotechnology. These areas extend the scope of agriculture to food and bioproducts. The Food and Bioproducts Sciences Department has two streams of research: food science and applied microbiology. Food Science applies principles from chemistry, biology, microbiology and engineering to the study of food and the development of food technology and to non-food uses of agricultural materials.<br>Faculty interests include:<br><br>Value-added crop utilization<br>Novel techniques to detect food adulteration<br>Lipid quality and utilization<br>Food nanotechnology<br>Food enzymology<br>Meat quality<br>Microbial bioproducts<br>Lipid biotechnology<br>Food and environmental microbiology<br>Protein quality and utilization<br>Mycology, microbial biotechnology and bioproducts.<br>The Department of Food and Bioproducts is housed in the state-of-the-art College of Agriculture building, a prominent edifice on the beautiful USask campus. This research-driven unit focuses on small class size, ready access to and help from faculty supervisors, and hands-on experiential training in numerous high-caliber facilities, including: food and bioproduct chemistry and analysis laboratories, food microbiology laboratories, molecular and environmental microbiology laboratories, product development and sensory evaluation laboratories, biotechnology research facilities, and food and bioproduct processing facilities.