Food Product Development: Based on Experience

✍ Scribed by Catherine Side

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 216
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 & PricingA 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, and distribution elements.

✦ Table of Contents

Food Product Development......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
Acknowledgments......Page 17
1 Effective Communication......Page 20
2 Focusing on the Participants: When and How to Involve Them......Page 30
3 Managing the Product Development Process......Page 38
4 Organizing Human Resources: By Project? By Discipline? As a Matrix?......Page 48
5 Product Life Cycle: Consumer Market Research......Page 68
6 Shelf-Life Considerations and Techniques......Page 76
7 Product and Concept Testing—Methods and Cost Control......Page 92
8 Case Study: Introducing a New Flavor and Color Ingredient......Page 112
9 Food Safety Systems: Anticipating Production and Integration into the Process......Page 120
10 Some Lesson Vignettes from Focus Groups and Other Market Research......Page 142
11 Equipment Integration in the Process: Patent Questions and Vendor Confidentiality......Page 160
12 The Role of Food Packaging in Product Development......Page 168
13 Contract Packaging or In-House Manufacturing?......Page 188
14 Initial and Progressive Cost Estimates......Page 196
Index......Page 206