~ Evidence-based Information for Food Industry Professionals ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — July 22, 2010 — EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) extends its evidence-based information solutions to the food industry with the release of Food Industry Watch™. This new resource is a robust executive decision support tool providing the most-current, objective information available on all topics affecting the food industry.

Food Industry Watch is designed specifically to support the information needs of corporate executives in the hospitality, food service and food production industries. The new resource offers access to more than 200 evidence-based, industry-related reports covering topics such as:

• compliance & regulation
• food availability
• food production
• food safety & quality
• food science & technology
• food service, management
• marketing and specialty foods

Food Industry Watch has adapted EBSCO’s core evidence-based methodology to areas of interest to corporate executives. The evidence-based approach identifies, selects and systematically evaluates pertinent information and creates a synthesis of the best available evidence. EBSCO’s experience with evidence-based content includes Sustainability Watch™ and Corporate Learning Watch™ as well as the point-of-care resources it provides to hospitals and other medical institutions including the clinical decision support resource DynaMed™.

Food Industry Watch may be integrated into corporate portals and Intranets. The EBSCOhost® Integration Toolkit allows EBSCO’s content to be incorporated into an organization’s workflow—providing seamless access to premium content.

Food Industry Watch joins a collection of food industry databases available through EBSCO including Food Science Source™ and FSTA – Food Science & Technology Abstracts™.
About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator serving the content needs of corporations, associations and organizations of all types. EBSCO offers a suite of more than 300 full-text and secondary research databases providing content from tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers. Databases provide information for areas ranging from research & development and corporate learning to departmental and industry-specific topics. EBSCO’s product lines include proprietary databases such as Business Source® Corporate, Business Book Summaries™, Learning Centers™, Business Basics™, Academic Search® R&D, Nonprofit Organization Reference Center™, and Health Library™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world, and may be integrated into corporate intranets, portals and learning management systems. For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com.

EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Manager
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com