Quality and innovation

Quality issues underpin all food and drink industry activities. We can help you in the development and application of cost-effective systems across a wide range of activities to meet the criteria requested by your customers and by enforcement authorities.

Member funded research projects: quality

• Functionality of novel ingredients from natural sources
• Novel natural preservative systems for use in drinks, sauces and other high aw foods
• Design and modelling of the impact of food structure on food texture
• Microbiological shelf life testing – new approaches
• Inactivation of bacterial biofilms – new approaches
• "Shelf–life plus": enhanced shelf–life evaluation using microbial profiling
• An evaluation of traditional and novel sensory and consumer methods suitable for product characterisation
• An ingredient functionality approach to shelf-life extension of foods
• Quality and safety of cereal–based products and ingredients for the food and brewing industry
• Exploring new sensory methods of assessing beers, ciders and other alcoholic beverages
• Quality validation for heat processed foods: improving product quality, reducing process energy and cost
• New technologies for food manufacturing
• Predicting the results of hop blending on final beer flavour/aroma using analytical and sensory methods
• Emerging ingredients – considerations for use in products
• Extension of product shelf-life through super chilling

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• Chia seeds
  Product developers are continuously looking for new ideas to introduce to the market place.
• Food quality management
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• White paper: Shelf-life
  How to determine product microbiological shelf-life: some basic considerations.
• Podcast: Hygiene implications of BRC7
  How the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety impacts on hygienic production of food and drink.
• Food rheology
  The rheological properties of food materials are important in determining both texture and behaviour when subjected to physical forces and forced to flow.
• Assessing consumer opinion
  Successful product innovation relies upon understanding what the consumer wants, how the product fits the brand and, ultimately, whether the product provides consumer satisfaction.
• Cereals – small scale testing services
  100g of wheat is sufficient to produce flour and carry out a set of small–scale testing methods followed by small–scale baking.