Food Product Development: Based on Experience

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 Resouces: By Project? By Discipline? As a Matrix?

5 Product Life Cycle: Consumer and 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 Research.

11 Equipment Integration in the Process: Patent Questions and Vendor Confidentiality.

12 The Role of Food Packaging in Product Development.

13 Contract Packaging ot In-House Manufacturing?

14 Initial and Progressive Cost Estimates.

Index.