Hurdling New Technology Challenges: Making the Business Case for New Technologies

摘要

Food industry scientists, engineers and food safety program managers often wonder why it is so hard to get funding for the application of new and better food safety technologies when the benefits are so obvious and clear. There are numerous examples of both improved existing technologies and novel technologies that offer food manufacturers greater food hazard prevention and control capabilities and increased production efficiencies to boot. Although the benefits of implementing new technologies may be obvious and clear to the food company's scientists and program managers—and even to other food safety professionals higher up the corporate decision-making ladder—the benefits often are not as immediately apparent to corporate managers who make the ultimate budget decisions.