PPT-Value-Added Products: Cottage Foods, Processing and Labeling Requirements

ValueAdded Foods Local organic vineripened or specialty crops Gourmet foods Jams jellies preserves Pickled vegetables Hot sauces salsas tapenades Herbed oils and vinegars Must consider regulatory safety and labeling issues. oll list la li equ nt is nd assist age ood io CF s in om asic eli la s a la io ns ck age ess od la els ally ave tw is as ri al lay l a P ima is lay an el In or an el ri al lay el orm n is art th la el th mer ill see rst is ally loc th e ac ag is el No conflicts of interest. No discussion of off-label uses. Health and Environmental Consequences of Genetically-Modified Foods and Biopharming. Martin . Donohoe. Genetically-Modified Organisms. Plants/animals whose DNA has been altered through the addition of genes from other organisms. Value-Added Foods. Local, organic, vine-ripened, or specialty crops. “Gourmet” foods. Jams, jellies, preserves. Pickled vegetables. Hot sauces, salsas, tapenades. Herbed oils and vinegars. Must consider regulatory, safety and labeling issues. Regulations and Food Safety Best Practices. Prepared by Londa Nwadike. Extension Consumer Food Safety Specialist. University of Missouri/ Kansas State University. Outline. Like clothing and music, food goes through trends, or fashions.. These trends affect the foods that are available to us:. What is grown. What is produced. What is sold. Some trends describe preferences: style of food, cooking technique, or flavours that are popular. A brief history….. Colorado’s Cottage Food Act was signed on March 15, 2012. On April 4. , . 2013, Act amended to clarify a few . definitions. 2015 (15-085): . expands the . permitted foods . to include fruit empanadas, tortillas, and pickled vegetables . Biopharming. Martin . Donohoe. Outline. GMOs. Corporate agribusiness. Health and Environmental Risks. Labeling. Solutions. Resources. Food Justice Issues. Hunger and malnutrition. 6 million child deaths/.  . 1.4 Why . are additives included in processed food?. Food Processing. What is food processing?. ‘Food processing means using techniques that changes the original form of the food – for example cooking, refining and adding flavours or colours…’. Miguel Lopez. Hannah Stephens. Carissa . Tarnowski. Company Background. Founders: John Mackey and Renee Lawson Hardy and Greg Weller and Mark . Skiles. 1980 Safer Way Natural Foods and Clarksville Natural Grocery merged creating Whole Foods . Agenda. Speaker introductions. Overview of Chinese food regulations. Food labeling requirements. Food contact regulations. Q&A. Expert Panel. Kevin C. Kenny, JD, LL.M Decernis . Co-founder and Owner. What is Food Science?. Food science . is the study of the nature of food, the causes of deterioration, the principles underlying food processing, and the improvement of foods for consumers. It focuses on what happens to foods before you eat . Regulations and Food Safety Best Practices. Prepared by Londa Nwadike. Extension Consumer Food Safety Specialist. University of Missouri/ Kansas State University. Outline. food additives . Direct Food Additives. Indirect Food Additives. Types of additives. roles and functions of food additives in food. Coding of food additives. Food safty (food additives). Food preservation. Acrylamide. What is . Acrylamide. ?. Acrylamide. is a . synthetic vinyl compound . produced by the chemical industry mainly as a building block for various . polymers, particularly . polyacrylamide.