Stewart of Creative Research and Gor­don Brown of General Mills, discussedhow to "Improve the Communicationlink between Marketing and Researchand Development." Dr. Trevor Watts,our National President, visited with usin February. He spoke on ProductDevelopment - Need of the Future.Dr. Les Ferrier, also of the Universityof Guelph, spoke about Food Irradia­tion. The March technical session fea­tured the New Product Display by thestudents of Humber College. All theentries were excellent and the judgesfound it hard to choose the winners.Starch Technology was presented byBob Murray of Nacan. The year endedwith the Annual General Meeting, fol­lowed by the Chairman's DinnerDance.

Transfer of the gavel from Bob Car­swell (past Chairman) to new Chair­man, Linda Thomson

Guelph Se~tion

The Guelph Section has establisheda scholarship for Food Science andConsumer Studies students. In April,1987, a presentation was made toPh.D. student, Mr. Bashir Manje, of theDepartment of Food Science, Univer­sity of Guelph. Mr. Manje is workingunder Dr. Y. Kakuda on the gelation ofmilk protein by UHT. The value of theaward was $450.00 and waspresented during the Section AnnualMeeting.

Dr. Basil Kamel, Guelph Section Chair­man, presents award to Mr. BashirManje.

UNIVERSITY NEWS

Universite. Laval-STELA

Le groupe STELA dirige par MonsieurPaul Paquin, est compose de 10professeurs-chercheurs, 5 profession­nels de recherche et pres de 25etudiants-chercheurs. Au cours destrois prochaines annees, I'equipe envi­sage de collaborer directement avec lesplus grandes societes quebecoises etcanadiennes oeuvrant dans Ie domainedes produits laitiers. Des projets impor­tants, qui devraient generer plus d'unevingtaine de nouveaux emplois dans Iedomaine de la recherche, seront ega­lement realises avec des PME directe­ment ou indirectement reliees a I'indus­trie laitiere. Le fractionnement encontinu de la matiere grasse du lait, la

• production de levure de boulangerie apartir de lactoserum, la production deFACW «Fermented Ammoniated Con­densed Whey» apartir de permeats delactoserum ou de lait, la mise au pointd'un bio-reacteur avec cellules immo­bilisees, la mise au point d'un program­me d'optimisation de la standardisationdu lait de fromagerie et du rendementfromager ainsi que la selection de sou­ches lactiques d'interet industriel sontparmi les principaux projets qu'envisa­ge de poursuivre Ie groupe de re­cherche.

10. Conduct production trials.

11. Troubleshoot manufacturing start-up.

Prepare production-scale formulation.

Produce test quantity products for consumerresearch.

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TreloarTreloar developsfood products and systemsfor manufacturerslarge and small.

Treloar can help you with these important stepsin your product development project1. Develop product objectives. 8.2. Evaluate options and assess manufacturing 9.

feasibility.

3. Assess competitive products.

4. Prepare test kitchen products.

5. Source and evaluate ingredients.

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