ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the scale-up and commercialization aspects of the food product development process. A new food product is developed for one of several reasons that may include innovation, product variety, convenience, healthier food alternatives, sales, market share, profit, safer products, and so forth. A project for commercialization of new food products is an organized effort to utilize company resources in order to produce safe, quality food products for consumers. It is an investment in the growth and advancement of the company. The objective of such a capital investment is that the goods or services produced will be of much greater value than the predicted or actual cost associated with the project. Ingredient handling and metering systems are very diverse in capabilities in that they can be designed to handle both minor quantities for prescaling as well as larger volumes of product for major metering.
