With our regular host Bryan Gibson still laid low with covid this week, senior journalist Richard Rennie talks to Joanne Todd, National Science Challenge director for high value food and beverage research.

After a decade of ground breaking research, four patents, 137 products researched and 60 business partnerships funding comes to an end this week, along with funding for the country's other 11 National Science challenges.

Todd outlines the work done to date, and the impact the end of funding is likely to have, bringing a period of major uncertainty to the scientific community, and to a key plank in the government's goal of doubling NZ's exports within the next 10 years.