| Foreword | Learning from the Health Promoting Diet in Traditional Oriental Medicines and Development of Functional Foods | Tsuneo Namba | Professor Emeritus of Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University |  |
| Contributions to the 10th Anniversary of FFI Journal | Musings on Seasonal Foods | Jiro Sekiya | Faculty School of Agriculture, Kyoto University | - |
| 10th Anniversary of FFI Journal, The Numbers Story | Masami Fujii | Editor-in-Chief of FFI Journal | - |
| Reviews | Detection Methods for Allergic Substances in Foods by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay | Tsutomu Honjoh
Shiroo Muraoka
Shinichi Mamegoshi
Masatoshi Sakai | Morinaga Institute of Biological Science |  |
| A Food-Allergen Screening Kit, FASTKITTM, As a Novel and Reliable QA Tool | Yoshihisa Takahata
Fumiki Morimatsu | Research and Development Center, Nippon Meat Packers, Inc. |  |
| Biological Functions and Health Benefits of Amino Acids | Toshikazu Kamiya | Tukuba Research Laboratories, Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd. |  |
| Characterization of Lactobacillus Isolates from Pickled Vegetables for Use as Dietary or Pickle Adjuncts | Pan, Tzu-Uing | Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University |
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| Chiu, Chiu-Hsia | Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University
Department of Food Science, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology |
| Gun, Yuan-Kuang | Department of Food Science, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology |
| Report | Report of the 8th Conference of the Japanese Society of Food Chemistry | Yoshio Ito | Secretary-General of Japanese, Society of Food Chemistry (Professor of Mukogawa Women's University) |  |
| ArtTaste | Food Cultures in Southeast Asia, vol. 2 | Yoshiko Yoshida |  |  |