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Use chemistry, microbiology, engineering, and other sciences to study the principles underlying the processing and deterioration of foods analyze food content to determine levels of vitamins, fat, sugar, and protein discover new food sources research ways to make processed foods safe, palatable, and healthful and apply food science knowledge to determine best ways to process, package, preserve, store, and distribute food.

Currently Employed: Not Available

Yearly Projected Openings: Not Available

Typical Hourly Wage: $34.25 - $53.10

Typical Annual Salary: $71,200 - $110,400

• Check raw ingredients for maturity or stability for processing and finished products for safety, quality, and nutritional value.
• Confer with process engineers, plant operators, flavor experts, and packaging and marketing specialists to resolve problems in product development.
• Develop new or improved ways of preserving, processing, packaging, storing, and delivering foods, using knowledge of chemistry, microbiology, and other sciences.
• Develop new food items for production, based on consumer feedback.
• Develop food standards and production specifications, safety and sanitary regulations, and waste management and water supply specifications.
• Inspect food processing areas to ensure compliance with government regulations and standards for sanitation, safety, quality, and waste management standards.
• Search for substitutes for harmful or undesirable additives, such as nitrites.
• Study methods to improve aspects of foods, such as chemical composition, flavor, color, texture, nutritional value, and convenience.
• Demonstrate products to clients.
• Test new products for flavor, texture, color, nutritional content, and adherence to government and industry standards.

• Cooking machinery
• Crushing machinery
• Dehydrating machinery
• Filling machinery
• Laboratory heat exchange condensers

• Analytical or scientific software
• Data base user interface and query software
• Office suite software
• Spreadsheet software
• Word processing software