| | The equipment and facilities within the Centre's pilot plant have the sophistication and flexibility for process development, custom processing and packaging of a variety of food commodities. Pilot plant equipment can provide simulation of industrial production to assess and evaluate product or process performance. Private industry is also invited to utilize the pilot plant for limited production on an interim basis.
The pilot plant consists of four separate processing areas: meat, wet process, dry process and fine particulate. The Centre is operated under Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Meat Hygiene Directorate Standards as an establishment registered with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). It meets all requirements for the shipment of products containing meat ingredients, both inter-provincially and internationally.
Pilot plant equipment can be integrated to provide a process made up of unit operations such as size reduction, drying, separation, heat transfer, extrusion processing, concentration, smoking, packaging and mixing. A complete forming, batter/breading, frying, cooking, baking and freezing line is also available and can be arranged in any required sequence.
Pilot plant services to provide the transition between bench-top development and commercial production are available to: food processors, entrepreneurs, industrial or commodity groups, university researchers, federal or provincial agriculture personnel and suppliers of equipment, ingredients and packaging. Engineering services are also available for process evaluation and assistance with equipment selection.
Centre Specialists are available to provide in-plant technical consultation and advisory services in trouble shooting, quality control/quality assurance, product development, plant start-up and process or equipment modifications.
Assurance of confidentiality
To protect and respect the interest of its clients, the Food Processing Development Centre holds all its client services in strict confidence. |
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