Retired, formerly with the National Bioproducts and Bioprocesses Program, Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Agriculture, and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, BC, Canada.

Dr. B. Dave Oomah, retired (2013) has been active in crop utilization research since 1980 and has authored/co-authored 112 research papers and 35 book chapters. He is co-editor of three books (2017, 2014 & 2000), and the Special Food Research International Issue [43( 2), 2010] on pulses, co-inventor of a US patent 6261629, and a trade secret on fiber-enriched products from flaxseed hulls.