Food Safety and Nutrition Science

Food Industry and Innovation

This session covers a series of industrial activities directed at the production, distribution, processing, conversion, preparation, preservation, transport, certification and packaging of foodstuffs. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, family-run activities that are highly labour-intensive, to large, capital-intensive and highly mechanized industrial processes. Many food industries depend almost entirely on local agriculture, produce, or fishing. Beverages Industry; Seafood Industry; Bakery Industry; Vegetable and Fruit Industry.