Food Centre

The Food Centre has been established as a partnership with Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food, the University of Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Food Processors Association.  The Food Centre will be with you from the planning stages through to the packaged and labelled product that is ready for test marketing.  The Food Centre is also an interim processing facility for small-to-medium processors.  

There is no charge for the initial consultation to establish your expectations and the Food Centre's responsibilities.

Summary

What the Food Centre can do for you....

• will draft a proposal and work with you to create a final contract
• assist with recipe standardization, microbial testing, sensory, HACCP and Quality Assurance applications for your product
• has a series of workshops to look at food safety, processing and packaging and labelling
• will set the productions phase according to your schedule and the Food Centre can provide you with technical and information services
• can handle anything from bench top to pilot scale production
• the commercial kitchen and product development labs will provide equipment and space for small scale processing of products from all sectors.
• the pilot plant is federally inspected for meat, dairy and processed foods and can handle large scale processing.  The federal certification enables processors to access export markets.
• organic certification:  certification allows for the processing of organic cereal, pulses, special crops, fruits, vegetables and organic meats. 
• information is available on a variety of subjects such as marketing, consumer trends, financing, export markets and regulations for all sectors of the food processing industry

Saskatchewan Contact(s):
Food Centre
Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre Inc.
117 - 105 North Road
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan  S7N 4L5
Telephone: (306) 933-7555
Fax: (306) 933-7208
E-mail: info@foodcentre.sk.ca
Web site: http://www.foodcentre.sk.ca/