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People: Dr Peter Greenhalgh: flavour and fragrance industry expert.

Dr Peter Greenhalgh, shares his career story from  diamonds to flavours and fragrance and highlights the topics that are likely to affect the sector in the future.

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Event Report: FlavourTalk 2020, Amsterdam

ICATS Deirdre Makepeace and Mandy Burns with highlights of the 2020 FlavourTalk conferences and exhibition held in Amsterdam in March 2020. Natural Flavours: Innovations,Technologies and Authenticity.

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People: Fragrance industry expert Penny Williams

Industry expert Penny Williams has joined the ICATS academic team and is updating the Module 6: Safety, regulatory and environmental issues, to cover significant changes in this area over the last few years.

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Book Review: The Rules of Contagion

ICATS Director, Dr Tony Curtis, reviews The Rules of Contagion: Why things Spread and Why They Stop. (2020) A. Kucharski. Review first published in ICATS News Autumn 2020.

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Book Review: The Art of Statistics

ICATS Director, Dr Tony Curtis, reviews The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data (2020). David Spiegelhalter.  Review first published in ICATS News Autumn 2020.

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In the News: The Long View

ICATS Director, Dr Tony Curtis takes 'the long view' of the current Covid-19 crisis, considering lessons from historic pandemics and unheeded scientific predictions. The flavour and aroma sector will need to continue to take sustainable approaches, adapting with agility to meet future challenges.

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Careers: The Creative Perfumer

Meet Claudine de Vogel, Senior Perfumer in the CPL Aromas GmbH office in Bielefeld, Germany. 'It is great to have such a varied, challenging job! I never get bored!'

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People: Fragrance Chemist Charles S. Sell

Fragrance Chemist, Charles Sell reflects on a career that included 36 years with  Givaudan where his work covered all aspects of synthetic organic chemistry as applied to the fragrance industry, from discovery of novel materials to improvement of established manufacturing processes.

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Event Report: IFEAT 2019, Nusa Dua , Bali

ICATS Deirdre Makepeace with highlights of the 2019 IFEAT conference held in Nusa Dua, Bali. The theme 'Naturals of Asia' linked sessions featuring the  science and production systems of a wide range of natural essential oils from cloves to sandalwood.

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Event Report: Fragrance Forum 2019, London

ICATS Deirdre Makepeace with highlights of the IFRA UK Fragrance Forum held at the Wellcome Collection, London in October 2019. Artificial intelligence is opening up new opportunities in fragrance creation, and both current and potential future uses for tech in perfumery were discussed as the panel considered the ‘quiet revolution’ of new technologies and how they can enhance the fragrance creation process.

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Book Review: Perfume in the Bible

ICATS Director, Dr Tony Curtis, reviews Perfume in the Bible (2019) by Charles Sell. Review first published in ICATS News Spring 2020.

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Fragrance: Ambergris - Beached up and having a whale of a time!

Professor Steven Rowland explores the history and science of ambergris in an article first published in the ICATS Spring 2020 newsletter.

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Book Review: Gastrophysics

ICATS Director, Dr Tony Curtis, reviews Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating (2017) by Professor Charles Spence. Review from ICATS News Spring 2020.

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Book Review: The Fundamentals of Fragrance Chemistry

ICATS Director, Dr Tony Curtis, reviews Fundamentals of Fragrance Chemisty (2019) by Charles S.Sell. Review first published in ICATS News Autumn 2019.

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Book Review: Flavour Creation

Dr Tony Curtis reviews John Wright's 'Flavour Creation'. This review first appeared in the ICATS Autumn 2019 newsletter.

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Fragrance: From Niche to Niche, the evolution of French perfumery

Michael Edwards’ ‘Fragrances of the World’ guidebooks have been described as ‘the only comprehensive, historically accurate, factually reliable and artistically consistent database of fragrances in existence.’ ICATS Mandy Burns reports on his fascinating presentation to the BSP 2019 Symposium taking delegates in a journey through the history of the iconic ‘legends’ of French perfumes.

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In the News: Odour, Flavour and Wellbeing

ICATS Director Dr Tony Curtis explore the latest science that considerrs how odour and flavour can contribute to well being in diverse settings from the Arctic to Mars as well as in the more traditional medical settings of nutritional advice.

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Fragrance: Chemistry World 'Scent Appeal'

Royal Chemistry Society's Chemistry World Magazine discusses careers and qualifications for the aroma and flavour trades.

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