Case Studies

Interreg IIIA Research Programme: Developing Innovative Dairy Products
This Interreg project sets out to support further growth and expansion of the food processing sector in North West Wales and eastern counties of Ireland. The project is organised by the Food Technology Centre and two of Teagasc’s centres - the Ashtown Food Research Centre in Dublin and Moorepark Food Research Centre in Cork. more...

A Guide to Product Recall
It has been reported that there were 1342 food incidents in the UK handled and investigated by the Food Standards Agency in 2006 (1). Many of these incidents, where there are concerns about the safety of food, have resulted in product recalls or withdrawals to protect consumer’s interests. more...

Novel Chocolates Developed at the Food Technology Centre
The Food Technology Centre has created a box of innovative chocolates to demonstrate its ability to conceptualise and manufacture a novel product. more...

Environmental Awareness in the Food Industry
Environmental issues are featuring in our lives more than ever before with concerns such as global warming, pollution from landfill and depletion of natural energy reserves. The food industry is responding to this with a number of initiatives designed to increase our awareness of energy consumption and carbon emissions. more...

Functional Foods: Focus on Obesity and Diabetes
All foods are functional in the sense that we eat them and they provide us with the energy and nutrients needed to live. However, there is now a new trend for foods with an added extra function. These include specific ingredients which aim to provide consumers with a medical or physiological benefit in addition to its expected nutritional benefit. According to the British Nutrition Foundation, a functional food is defined as having health-promoting benefits or disease-preventing properties, over and above its usual nutritional value. more...

Functional Foods: Focus on Omega-3
Functional foods contain ingredients that have health promoting properties over and above their nutritional value. Functional foods include a very broad range of products, ranging from foods generated from a particular functional ingredient through to staple, everyday foods fortified with a nutrient. more...

Interreg IIIA Research Programme: Developing Innovative Meat Products
The Food Technology Centre has made much progress into an EU-funded Interreg IIIA collaborative research project. This is a three year venture which concludes in June 2008, aimed at supporting the further growth and expansion of the food processing sector. more...

BRC Accreditation Achieved at Llaeth y Llan Village Dairy
The Food Technology Centre has assisted Llaeth y Llan Village Dairy in attaining BRC (British Retail Consortium) Accreditation. Llaeth y Llan is an established dairy operation based in Denbigh, manufacturing luxury yogurts for local retail in the North Wales region. more...

The Food Technology Centre’s Guide To New Product Development (NPD)
A vast number of new food products are launched on the market every year and these are key to a thriving and innovative industry. This is a guide for both budding entrepreneurs and existing food manufacturers seeking expansion of product ranges, outlining the crucial steps to success. more...

HACCP Review at Hughes Meats
The Food Technology Centre recently came to the assistance of Hughes Meats, a meat processing company based in Bangor, North Wales. more...

Success of Gorau Glas Cheese
If inspiration is needed for launching a new product, look no further. Putting Welsh blue cheese firmly on the map is Margaret Davies, with her product Gorau Glas now a household name in North Wales. more...

Bwydlyn
"It was a matter of working closely with the Food Technology Centre – it was when we contacted them that things really started to move," Hywel Jones, Chairman, Bwydlyn. more...

Speeding up chicken meat maturation
The study concluded that electrical stimulation has the effect of tenderising chicken breast meat to a level comparable to meat that has been tenderised by the conventional 9-hour on-the-bone maturation. more...

Elfed’s meals are a ready-made success
With the help of the Food Technology Centre, Denbighshire based Cegin Famau (Famau Kitchen) launched a range of ready-meals. The business is going from strength to strength and the meals are selling well through an increasing number of outlets. more...