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Food Scientists and Technologists
ID
work_science/food_scientists_and_technologists
Type
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Children
13
Child Nodes (13)
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Inspect food processing areas to ensure compliance with government regulations and standards for sanitation, safety, quality, and waste management.
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Check raw ingredients for maturity or stability for processing, and finished products for safety, quality, and nutritional value.
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Study methods to improve aspects of foods, such as chemical composition, flavor, color, texture, nutritional value, and convenience.
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Develop food standards and production specifications, safety and sanitary regulations, and waste management and water supply specifications.
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Stay up to date on new regulations and current events regarding food science by reviewing scientific literature.
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Study the structure and composition of food or the changes foods undergo in storage and processing.
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Confer with process engineers, plant operators, flavor experts, and packaging and marketing specialists to resolve problems in product development.
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Test new products for flavor, texture, color, nutritional content, and adherence to government and industry standards.
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Develop new food items for production, based on consumer feedback.
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Develop new or improved ways of preserving, processing, packaging, storing, and delivering foods, using knowledge of chemistry, microbiology, and other sciences.
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Evaluate food processing and storage operations and assist in the development of quality assurance programs for such operations.
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Demonstrate products to clients.
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