INNOVATION CENTRES: THE FUTURE OF FOOD?
March 18th, 2024
Food innovation centres (FICs) have become a feature of the global food production landscape over the past few decades and now play a significant role in the research and development of edible products.
The first purpose built FICs started to appear in the final quarter of the 20th century, with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the US’s Midwest Corn Belt, an early mover in this field, opening its Food Processing Center in 1983 (1).
Since then, more FICs have grown out of the R&D departments of food companies and science departments of universities, ...
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