Prof Seppo Salminen, PhD, is a Professor at the Faculty of Medicine and director of the Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, Finland. He has been visiting professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and BOKU University, Vienna Austria. His main research interests are probiotics, prebiotics, and intestinal microbiota modulation as well as functional foods and health and regulatory issues in novel foods and health claims. He has been active in the International Life Sciences Institute Europe, the International Dairy Federation, and the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (past President and current Board Member). He received his MS at Washington State University (USA) in 1978, MSc from the University of Helsinki in 1979, and PhD from the University of Surrey (United Kingdom) in 1982. He has around 500 journal articles and several textbooks and book chapters and he has received several international awards including the ISF-Institute Pasteur Metchnikoff Price, Swiss Price on Modern Nutrition and the Grand Prix du Yoplait.