An Industrial Chemist is an applied scientist, some of whom are engaged in solving problems at the forefront of research, while others are responsible for successful operations of some of Australia's largest companies in the chemical industry.
Industrial Chemists are constantly striving to improve the safety and efficiency of making important chemicals and materials.

Typically Industrial Chemists undertake optimisation of complex processes, but unlike engineers, Industrial Chemists examine and change the chemistry of the process itself.
Industrial Chemists are at the forefront of the management and control of the environment of industrial processes, to ensure a clean and safe future.

Chemical Engineering bridges the study of the chemical and physical sciences with engineering. It involves the operation and optimisation of chemical processes and creates the devices and industrial plants related to chemical, biological, and environmental processes.

The major areas of chemical engineering activities are:

The principal goals while studying Food Chemistry are to quantify the chemical deterioration of foods, especially lipids, during processing and storage; to characterise the nature of flavours and off-flavours in foods and beverages; and to characterise the nature of natural food constituents. Please see http://www.aifst.asn.au/foodworx/.
Some current projects include:

Research relies extensively on instrumental analyses, such as GC, GC-MS and HPLC. An important aspect of food flavour projects is that of linking these objective instrumental findings with those of more subjective evaluations of the foods under investigation by sensory methods, sensory evaluation being the ultimate arbiter of flavour evaluation.