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Article: Starving food science. (Personnel File) (column)
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- Chemistry and Industry
- Article date:
- June 17, 1991
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Despite the current increase in unemployment, demographic changes alone indicate that there will be a 25 per cent shortfall in the next few years in the number of food science and technology graduates available to the food industry. The consequences of this shortage are alarming.
Over the past 40 years there have been increasingly rapid developments in the food field which have led to large numbers of food products becoming available to the consumer. Some 2000 new' products appear each year - although many do not stay for long. Technical developments have led from batch to continuous processing, from simple analysis of raw materials and the finished products ...