Congratulations to Jiahleen Roungchun a former thesis student and to current 4+1 Food Science Master’s Student Amanda Tabb for getting published in the Food Control journal. Jiahleen’s research explored the “Identification of tuna species in raw and processed products using DNA mini-barcoding of the mitochondrial control region”. Check it out here!

Food Protection Lab Student Researchers Presented their Summer Research at Chapman University. Check it out here!

Congratulations to former thesis student April Shaw, as well as research students Seeret Jhita and Gabrielle McBride for publication of of their project on mislabeling and short-weighting of frozen fish fillets!  Check out the full article here.

Congratulations to former Food Protection Lab thesis students Zerika Scales and Olive Dahm for publishing their research! Zerika’s research examined the authentication of bison products using molecular methods and Olive’s research was focused on molecular authentication of bovine liver dietary supplements.

Dr. Hellberg was recently interviewed as part of a segment on Food Fraud produced by the international newsmagazine Efecto Naim.  Check it out here.

Congratulations to April (Peterson) Shaw (MS Food Science ’20) for winning first place in the Student Poster Competition at the 2020 Pacific Fisheries Technologists Conference! April is a graduate student in the Food Protection Lab.  She presented her research on labeling compliance and species authentication of frozen fish fillets.  The conference was held March 1-4 at the Queen Mary in Long Beach.

Imagine you go to the grocery store and you buy an item, yet you may actually not be buying that product at all? This is a real life scenario that can happen with a variety of specific foods sold at your local grocery store. At the Orange Public Library, Dr. Rosalee Hellberg and college volunteers educated teens and tweens about the real life scenarios that happen in relation to food fraud. Dr.Hellberg introduced the topic of food fraud with seafood, in which filets of two different fish were displayed with similar morphological traits, yet were actually significantly different in price! Students were then advised on other foods commonly adulterated, including milk, juice, olive oil, and honey. Overall, this event was a great success and we look forward to a continued partnership with the Orange Public Library STEAM Teens and Tweens Program!

SURFEE Gabby Mcbride is working this summer focusing on DNA Barcoding of Fish in correlation with Food Fraud. She has been working with Chapman graduate student April Peterson on the mislabeling of frozen fish sold in the average grocery store. More information about her background and future directions can be found at:

“Although summer research is short, I will never forget this experience.”