Addresses the following key components of food product development: managing the product development process; consumer and market research; making it happen; and costing and pricing.

Featuring over 1900 references, drawings, and tables and drawing on disciplines as diverse as political economics, public management, and urban affairs, this versatile text offers comprehensive information on major policy and managerial issues important to local and national economic development. Pulling together the work of over 40 researchers, the book examines the role of government in economic advances and reform, provides a complete, up-to-date survey of the literature on local and national economic development, details local and regional economic progress in the US, adopts an innovative...

This work focuses on the preparation, structure, chemistry, functional properties, stability, handling and applications of naturally-derived colorants approved for use in food products in the USA, Europe and Asia. It presents studies that investigate whether natural colorants reduce risk of heart disease, specific types of cancer, and other conditions.

This volume examines the contributions of proteins to the technological and organoleptic characteristics of food. It provides a solid basis for understanding the principles of food protein functionality and offers information to help develop unique food products using proteins as novel ingredients. Properties such as solubility, viscosity, gelation, emulsification and loam formation are discussed.

Describes all seal types used in industry for rotating, oscillating and reciprocating shaft applications. The work details the various practices for radial shaft seal selection, testing and installation recommended by the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Rubber Manufacture's Association, the American Society for Testing and Materials, and the American Society of Tribology and Lubrication Engineers, among others.

Obwohl sie gemeinhin dem Verdikt "Trivialliteratur" verfallt, handelt es sich bei der Frauenliteratur um 1800 nicht um die Literatur unzureichend gebildeter Frauen. Vielmehr weist die Autorin nach, da die Interessen der meisten Schriftstellerinnen sich durchaus nicht in Liebes-, Ehe- und Familienfragen erschopften, sondern die literarische Offentlichkeit auch als ein weibliches Diskussionsforum fur Literatur, Philosophie und Politik diente. Fur die gebildeten Frauen am Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts gab es keine lebenspraktische Perspektive der Professionalitat, einzig der Weg in die...

This Symposium on Modern Methods of Food Analysis was the sev enth in a series of basic symposia, begun in 1976, on topics of major importance to food scientists and food technologists. The Symposium, sponsored jointly by the Institute of Food Technologists and the In ternational Union of Food Science and Technology, was held June 17 and 18, 1983, in New Orleans immediately prior to the 43rd annual 1FT meeting. Like the other six basic symposia, the program brought together outstanding speakers, from biochemistry, chemistry, food science, microbiology and nutrition, who are at the cutting...