Last night, during the American Association of Candy Technologists’ (AACT) National Technical Conference being held at the Marriott Lincolnshire Resort in Lincolnshire, Ill., the organization presented Marlene Baxter Stauffer, director of quality assurance and regulatory compliance at the Blommer Chocolate Co., the 2015 Stroud Jordan award.
Michael Allured, publisher and editor-in-chief of Manufacturing Confectioner magazine, and last year’s Stroud Jordan recipient, presented Stauffer with the medallion featuring the image of Stroud Jordan, a renowned confectionery scientist and co-founder of the AACT.