Michael I McBurney is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Human Health & Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada and the Division of Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA. He is a Senior Scientist with the Fatty Acid Research Institute, Sioux Falls, SD, USA. Michael is a Fellow of both the Canadian Nutrition Society and the American Society for Nutrition.