Course: WVA 102 Food Preservation Methods

Reading

Food Entrepreneurs

In this online guide, students are asked to examine the factors associated with starting a new food business. Students will read about how to maximize profitability while reviewing additional business, regulatory, and food technological resources to consider when starting a new food manufacturing business. Students are asked to review this information while thinking about the final project. As you read, consider these factors in relation to the manufacturing and processing of your preserved food product.

Click here to access the Food Entrepreneurs webpage from Penn State University Extension.

Please read about Food Entrepreneurs and the following sections:

- Starting a Food Business
- Regulations
- Food Technology
- Ingredients
- Equipment
- Packaging and Labeling
- Testing Laboratories
- Process Authorities
- Co-packers
- Kitchen Incubators