Details

Subjects:

Food industry and trade.
Food.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

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 & Market Research, Making It Happen, Cost & Pricing

Contents:

Food Product Development; CONTENTS; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Effective Communication; 2 Focusing on the Participants: When and How to Involve Them; 3 Managing the Product Development Process; 4 Organizing Human Resources: By Project? By Discipline? As a Matrix?; 5 Product Life Cycle: Consumer Market Research; 6 Shelf-Life Considerations and Techniques; 7 Product and Concept Testing-Methods and Cost Control; 8 Case Study: Introducing a New Flavor and Color Ingredient; 9 Food Safety Systems: Anticipating Production and Integration into the Process
10 Some Lesson Vignettes from Focus Groups and Other Market Research11 Equipment Integration in the Process: Patent Questions and Vendor Confidentiality; 12 The Role of Food Packaging in Product Development; 13 Contract Packaging or In-House Manufacturing?; 14 Initial and Progressive Cost Estimates; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Side, Catherine.

ISBN:

1-281-38205-1
9786611382056
0-470-79239-6
0-470-37689-9
0-470-37666-X

OCLC:

437219599