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laboratory business holdings. The larger enterprise now offers bench-top to micro-pilot product
and process development, industrial forensics, materials research, and safety and stability testing.
The Libra Technical Center is a GMP compliant, FDA and Client inspected/audited, R&D, Analytical
and Synthesis laboratory.
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY INVITED LECTURES
Awards Ceremony
Inspirational and Motivational speech to the top 100 High School Graduating Seniors (Lower New
York State and New York City) who declared a chemistry major in their accepting Colleges;
presented by request at Adelphi University, June 2005
Princeton Section of ACS meeting at Princeton University
How a French Fry Fries (thermodynamics, chemistry, physics, biochemistry, mathematics, food
science, and public health research), April 2009 – Celebrating 50 Years in ACS
OTHER
"PUBLICATIONS"
As with any other scientist working in organizations and consultancies where updates, reports,
white-papers, etc. are expected periodically, Dr. Blumenthal has "published" literally thousands of
"reviewed" papers that will never be seen outside the organizations for which they were written
under strict confidentiality. In order that some aspects from this private work are not lost, Dr.
Blumenthal, with the cooperation of his associates and clients, has embedded special insights and
teachings in his short courses, graduate classes as a Lecturer at Rutgers University, and other
schools around the world, and in mentoring many interns, graduate students, and employees
working in the technology companies he founded since leaving larger industry.
Dr. Blumenthal is currently writing books and monographs for eventual publication. He is studying
new fields including development of optimized processes and products from botanicals, biofuels
from renewable and recycled oils, purification and standardization of food, flavor, texture, and
fragrance materials at “village farm” level, and the total synthesis of foods from non-cellular
sources, for military, rescue, and long duration space missions (like the “Food Replicator” from
Star Trek
®
) based upon his 1970 “how-to” seminar at Rutgers University.
Also, in returning to his original roots as a physical chemist in rheology, chromatography, thermal
analysis, and microscopy. Dr. Blumenthal is training others, and applying that talent to “industrial
forensics”, a nascent field requiring a very broad base of knowledge of commodities, technologies,
and experience of consumer and machinery products and how they are made. Dr. Blumenthal
has, over many years, expanded his consulting practice to include expert witness services for the
chemistry, engineering, food science, materials science, personal care, consumer products,
packaging, lipid technology, stability, quality assurance, and laboratory management fields in
which he is recognized.
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