ENVS 2210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: North American Free Trade Agreement, Foodborne Illness, Mercosur
24 Mar 2017
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Unit 1: introduction to food science and food industry. Food industry consists of: food production, manufacturing, processing, distribution. Food is a global commodity due to: processing, communication, transportation. Food technology: concerned with the development, processing, preservation, packaging, and distribution of safe, nutritious, and appealing food. Food engineering: concerned with applying physical and engineering principles to control unit operations in food processing, mass transfer, heat transfer and thermodynamics, fluid flow dynamics, mechanics, process control and automation. Food market factors: provides vital information to ensure marketability of food products, sensory evaluation, communication, food industry trends, food laws and regulation, consumer behaviour. Examples: food manufacturing, government, academia, advocacy groups, consulting, and product testing. Stakeholder: one who holds and interest in something. We are all stake holders to some extent: we all need to eat, food industry makes important economic contributions, provides employment for many people.
