Food technology

Food Technology is the application of food science to the selection, preservation, processing, packaging, distribution, and use of safe, nutritious, and wholesome food.

A food technologist should be able to help you

• Developing new, and modifying existing, products and processes
• Checking and improving quality control procedures in suppliers' factories, from the raw material stage through to the finished product
• Developing product ideas
• Selecting products from suppliers
• Addressing issues of safety and quality
• Liaising and co-operating with colleagues in procurement and technical services, and also with official food inspection and hygiene agencies
• Carrying out feasability study on local food production
• Etc.

For further information, contact:

• Joop Menkveld (Procurement - HQ)
• Tina Van Den Briel (Nutrition - HQ)
• Bertrand Salvignol (Food Technologist / Nutritionist - HQ)
• Shane Prigge (Food Technologist / Nutritionist - Asia Bureau)