Thomas Riggins

Motus3 manufactures food processing equipment. It offers designing and building of food processing equipment for meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, fruit, bakery, confectioneries, snacks, and dairy goods. The company was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Overland Park, KS.

Marlen International, Inc. manufactures engineered food processing equipment and systems. It brands include Marlen and Carruthers. The company designs and builds equipment to process meat, poultry, pet food, fish, vegetables, fruit, bakery goods, confectionaries, snacks and dairy goods. Marlen International is headquartered in Riverside, MO.

Safe Foods Corp. develops and commercializes food safety technologies. Its products include Cecure, Promoat, Citrilow, Ajust, FreshLight. The firm develops technology related to producers, processors and consumers of dairy, meat, poultry, eggs, fish, fruits, and vegetables. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in North Little Rock, AR.

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is a scientific community that has been in existence since 1939. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL. The organization aims to inspire and transform collective scientific knowledge into innovative solutions for the benefit of all people around the world. The science of food encompasses food science, food technologies, and their applications across the food industry. IFT envisions a world where diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are universally valued as essential to advancing the science of food. The organization has member resource groups that provide supportive spaces for communities who have traditionally been underrepresented and under-supported. Christie A. Tarantino has been the CEO of the company since 2014.

Vivione Biosciences, formerly LITMUS RAPID-B, is powered by RAPID-B technology, an integrated system of Hardware, Software and Wetware that tests bacteria in key environments. Their mission is to revolutionize the Clinical and Medical Fields, Food and Industrial Safety, Water Safety and Bio-Defense by utilizing one compact, universal platform for all diagnostic testing that can be used for bacteria, viruses and toxins. Taking the place of outdated culture-based, immunology-based and molecular-based methods that take countless hours and many times, days, RAPID-B provides more accurate results for each of these fields in minutes to a few hours. Their technology has combined flow cytometry with their own proprietary reagents to achieve a single cell detection capability in minutes. Unlike culture-based methods, the RAPID-B system does not require isolation of bacteria. It works with the background interference from complex Matrices like food.