Processing technology innovation in the food industry (journal article)
by Peter J Fryer and Cornelis Versteeg
from Innovation: management policy and practice Vol. 10 No. 1 pp. 74-90
The food industry is as old as civilization; and many of its process operations are thousands of years old, such as brewing (developed in Sumeria and Babylon) and baking (developed in Egypt ca. 8000 BC ). The modern food manufacturing industry evolved during and after the Industrial Revolution; Thorne (1986) attributes the beginnings of the industry to the first heat sterilisation plant developed by Appert in France in the early 1800s. Since then the modern food industry has become highly diverse and very large.
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