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Canada has an extensive range of research centres, food incubators, accelerators and labs supporting food and beverage innovation through the research they do and/or the services they offer. Each week throughout 2023, we’re highlighting an organization that’s supporting food innovation in Canada.
Mission: The Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre is a non-profit organization that provides resources and expertise to help agri-businesses create innovative products and value-added opportunities in the food business.
Focus: The Food Centre provides services and expertise to help food processors and agri-businesses bring food and ingredient innovations to commercialization.
Services: The centre staff has expertise in food and process development, interim processing, extrusion technology, skills development, food safety education and training, quality assurance, technology transfer and path-finding. Its services include R&D of new food concepts, short and long-term processing, extrusion and food safety training.
Its processing facilities include incubation suites, product development and processing innovation suites, extrusion R&D and processing suites, food testing labs, an ingredient innovation suite, a 10,000-sq.-ft. Pilot Plant, and a 63,000+ sq. ft. Agri-Food Innovation Centre. Its federal processing facility is Saskatchewan’s only commercial incubation centre for food processing.
What you Need to Know: The Food Centre has developed over 1,000 products with an estimated 50% introduced into the market
Notable News: In October 2023 the Food Centre received $5 million in five-year funding from the federal and provincial governments toward its ongoing mission to grow the value-added agri-food and food product industries in Saskatchewan.