Food Product Development

In addition, if you have defined the equipment needed for processing your product, it may be possible to get assistance and finance from equipment suppliers in exchange for an agreement to use their products wherever your idea is produced. I have done this is several instances with considerable success.

You will still need the involvement of a food technologist as the food safety laws, particularly in Europe are very strict. Tests will have to be done for shelf life, storage stability, a list of ingredients must be prepared by an independent laboritory, and recipes scaled up to industrial proportions.

The scaling up is usually a frightener to people not aquainted to the food industry but with nearly all new food products the equipment exists to produce them. Usually it needs a change in shape or small modification to make the new product.

In order to be successful you must involve an industry-approved expert to guide you through the minefield.

If you think this is too difficult and expensive, if your product is truly unique then it may be worth offering the product to an existing supplier. His would mean selling the idea outright, or taking a royalty fee for each product sold.