Food Product Development Based on Experience edited by Catherine Side

Practical Food Product Development Reference
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Food Product Development
Based on Experience
IFT Basic Symposium Series
edited by Catherine Side

Improve your product development success ratio!

This IFT Basic Symposium is the collective work of a team of seasoned food industry consultants whose experiences and observations provide a "how to" guide of successful product and process development. Their information-packed presentations will deepen and broaden the food technologist's knowledge of food product development to the sphere beyond the laboratory.

Authors address the following key components of product development:

Managing the Product Development Process
Consumer and Market Research
Making It Happen
Cost and Pricing

A case study and several short case history lessons illuminate product development from perspectives that include:

Consumer and marketing needs
Manufacturing ramifications
Communication issues
Food safety systems
Shelf life techniques
Distribution elements

Contents,br>

Executive Support and Feedback
Focusing on the Participants
When and How To Involve Them
Managing the Product Development Process
Organizing Human Resouces
By Project?
By Discipline?
As a Matrix?
Product Life Cycle
Consumer and Market Research
Shelf Life Considerations and Techniques
Product and Concept Testing
Methods and Cost Control
Case Study
Introducing a New Flavor and Color Ingredient
Food Safety Systems
Anticipating Production
Confirming Safety (Challenge Testing)
Some Lesson Vignettes from Focus Groups and Other Market Research
Equipment Integration in the Process
Patent Questions and Vendor Confidentiality
Contract Packing or In-house Manufacturing
The Impact of Packaging on Product Development
Initial and Progressive Cost
Finding the Critical Factors
Balancing and Controlling the Factors for Cost and Pricing
Successful and Unsuccessful Product Development Short Stories

Index

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Food Product Development
Based on Experience
edited by Catherine Side
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