EDITORIAL NOTES Message from the Editor-in-Chief Da-Wen Sun Received: 23 November 2009 /Accepted: 23 November 2009 /Published online: 4 December 2009 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 Dear reader Welcome to Volume 3 of Food and Bioprocess Technology (FABT). Since FABT was launched in 2008, it has made some good progresses. & Within a short period of just over 1 year, FABT is indexed by ISI Web of Science, i.e., Science Citation Index (SCI). Now FABT is abstracted/indexed by all the major databases including Academic Search, AGRICOLA, Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts, Biotechnology Abstracts, Biotechnology and Bio- Engineering Abstracts, CAB International, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), ChemWeb, Compendex, CSA Biological Sciences, Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences, EMBiology, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, Global Health, Google Scholar, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, OCLC, Science Citation Index Expanded (SciSearch), SCOPUS, Summon by Serial Solutions, and VINITY—Russian Academy of Science. & Manuscript submission to FABT is overwhelming. At the time of writing we have 194 papers published on Online First™, which are waiting to be assigned to regular issues. In order to accommodate this high demand of paper publications, from the current volume, FABT is expanded from four issues (100 printed pages per issue) per year to six issues (150 printed pages per issue) per year. & FABT will have its 1st Impact Factor in June 2010. I should emphasize here that without your support, it will not be possible for FABT to make such achievements. As the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, I would therefore like to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks to our readers, in particular to our reviewers for your critical comments on manuscripts which have greatly contributed to maintaining the high standard of the journal; and to our authors for your publication of cutting-edge high-quality original papers in the journal. D.-W. Sun (*) Biosystems Engineering, Agriculture & Food Science Centre, School of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland e-mail: dawen.sun@ucd.ie URL: www.ucd.ie/refrig URL: www.ucd.ie/sun Food Bioprocess Technol (2010) 3:1 DOI 10.1007/s11947-009-0304-x http://www.ucd.ie/sun Message from the Editor-in-Chief Dear reader << /ASCII85EncodePages false /AllowTransparency false /AutoPositionEPSFiles true /AutoRotatePages /None /Binding /Left /CalGrayProfile (None) /CalRGBProfile (sRGB IEC61966-2.1) /CalCMYKProfile (ISO Coated v2 300% \050ECI\051) /sRGBProfile (sRGB IEC61966-2.1) /CannotEmbedFontPolicy /Error /CompatibilityLevel 1.3 /CompressObjects /Off /CompressPages true /ConvertImagesToIndexed true /PassThroughJPEGImages true /CreateJDFFile false /CreateJobTicket false /DefaultRenderingIntent /Perceptual /DetectBlends true /ColorConversionStrategy /sRGB /DoThumbnails true /EmbedAllFonts true /EmbedJobOptions true /DSCReportingLevel 0 /EmitDSCWarnings false /EndPage -1 /ImageMemory 524288 /LockDistillerParams true /MaxSubsetPct 100 /Optimize true /OPM 1 /ParseDSCComments true /ParseDSCCommentsForDocInfo true /PreserveCopyPage true /PreserveEPSInfo true /PreserveHalftoneInfo false /PreserveOPIComments false /PreserveOverprintSettings true /StartPage 1 /SubsetFonts false /TransferFunctionInfo /Apply /UCRandBGInfo /Preserve /UsePrologue false /ColorSettingsFile () /AlwaysEmbed [ true ] /NeverEmbed [ true ] /AntiAliasColorImages false /DownsampleColorImages true /ColorImageDownsampleType /Bicubic /ColorImageResolution 150 /ColorImageDepth -1 /ColorImageDownsampleThreshold 1.50000 /EncodeColorImages true /ColorImageFilter /DCTEncode /AutoFilterColorImages false /ColorImageAutoFilterStrategy /JPEG /ColorACSImageDict << /QFactor 0.76 /HSamples [2 1 1 2] /VSamples [2 1 1 2] >> /ColorImageDict << /QFactor 0.76 /HSamples [2 1 1 2] /VSamples [2 1 1 2] >> /JPEG2000ColorACSImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /JPEG2000ColorImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /AntiAliasGrayImages false /DownsampleGrayImages true /GrayImageDownsampleType /Bicubic /GrayImageResolution 150 /GrayImageDepth -1 /GrayImageDownsampleThreshold 1.50000 /EncodeGrayImages true /GrayImageFilter /DCTEncode /AutoFilterGrayImages true /GrayImageAutoFilterStrategy /JPEG /GrayACSImageDict << /QFactor 0.76 /HSamples [2 1 1 2] /VSamples [2 1 1 2] >> /GrayImageDict << /QFactor 0.15 /HSamples [1 1 1 1] /VSamples [1 1 1 1] >> /JPEG2000GrayACSImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /JPEG2000GrayImageDict << /TileWidth 256 /TileHeight 256 /Quality 30 >> /AntiAliasMonoImages false /DownsampleMonoImages true /MonoImageDownsampleType /Bicubic /MonoImageResolution 600 /MonoImageDepth -1 /MonoImageDownsampleThreshold 1.50000 /EncodeMonoImages true /MonoImageFilter /CCITTFaxEncode /MonoImageDict << /K -1 >> /AllowPSXObjects false /PDFX1aCheck false /PDFX3Check false /PDFXCompliantPDFOnly false /PDFXNoTrimBoxError true /PDFXTrimBoxToMediaBoxOffset [ 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 ] /PDFXSetBleedBoxToMediaBox true /PDFXBleedBoxToTrimBoxOffset [ 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 0.00000 ] /PDFXOutputIntentProfile (None) /PDFXOutputCondition () /PDFXRegistryName (http://www.color.org?) /PDFXTrapped /False /SyntheticBoldness 1.000000 /Description << /ENU /DEU >> >> setdistillerparams << /HWResolution [2400 2400] /PageSize [5952.756 8418.897] >> setpagedevice