Partners include: Northeast Center to Advance Food Safety NECAFS , Western Mass. Food Processing Center WMFPC in Greenfield, Commonwealth Kitchen in Dorchester, Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources MDAR , Communities Involved in Sustaining Agriculture CISA , and other like-minded organizations all helping to provide assistance to develop emerging markets.

However, the terms local and value-added have become intertwined when defining the merits of food. As they tackle ways to standardize an emerging value-added food industry, Kinchla and Fitzsimmons aim to create unambiguous terms with clear distinctions going forward.

While freezing fresh produce has become more widespread, the UMass team is also working with acidified or canned products, dairy processing, and sustainable local seafood. Kinchla and Fitzsimmons have a well-honed sense of emerging technologies.

They are frequently engaged in conversations around the country on issues including cottage food laws, incubator businesses, and food-producer entities, topics complicated by regional and state-by-state variations in rules and regulations, many of which are tied to safety and quality.

Anytime you change physical state, you are changing risk and you need to be sure quality holds firm throughout the supply chain. They currently are in conversations with rural economic food groups in Massachusetts, West Virginia, and Arkansas. Together they are working on determining market potential for value-added foods.

While it seems that the jelly and jam market is tapped out, it is not yet clear where the next surge of buying power will arise. Although they say you should never put your eggs in one basket… it may not apply here.

Those abundant research baskets of Kinchla and Fitzsimmons look like a fair bet for the future of value-added foods. For general question related towards value-added foods, send message to: valueaddedemail umass.

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Pesticide Education. UMass Collegiate M The University of Massachusetts Amherst Open UMass Global Links Menu Visit Apply Give Search UMass. Back to top In Our Spotlight. Food Transformation. June 10, Kinchla and Fitzsimmons are committed to streamlining this situation. UMass Leading the Country in Value-Added Investment Since , these two have teamed up to merge their separate, but related, interests in order to help others extend food value.

Why the Keen Interest? Many Ways to Add Value While freezing fresh produce has become more widespread, the UMass team is also working with acidified or canned products, dairy processing, and sustainable local seafood.

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