Nutritional Testing Equipment to Support Emerging Agri-Food Businesses

为了支持伦敦、安大略省及周边地区农业食品生产和加工行业中小企业的创新需求，Fanshawe申请资金购买营养检测设备设计，以将其服务从产品开发扩展到商业化前和质量保证/控制支持。由于与私人实验室相关的成本以及对区域生态系统中基于发现的研究的支持与应用研究之间的差距，Fanshawe已经拥有基础设施和专业知识，通过其生物技术应用研究和创新中心（CARIB）实验室和生物经济中心（CBE@FAN）填补这些实验室。最终，通过为公司提供测试其产品以确定营养价值，成分浓度和产品组成以及配方稳定性的能力，Fanshawe将能够帮助公司不仅通过其对创新的支持来降低产品开发阶段的风险，而且还可以降低与产品开发早期阶段相关的成本，以便成功进入市场。除了这些好处之外，Fanshawe学生通过与行业合作伙伴开展应用研究项目和所需设备的工作获得的培训，以及与Fanshawe学院人员进行项目的行业合作伙伴代表的培训机会，将有助于解决该行业日益增长的技能差距，并向具有生物技术和仪器技能的学生介绍创新食品。和饮料公司需要他们的人才

In support of the innovation needs of SMEs in the agri-food production and processing sector in London, ON and the surrounding region, Fanshawe requests funding to purchase nutritional testing equipment design to extend its services beyond product development into pre-commercialization and quality assurance/control supports. The requested equipment is largely unavailable to local and regional SMEs due to the costs associated with private labs and a gap between support for discovery-based, as opposed to applied, research in the regional ecosystem that Fanshawe already has the infrastructure and expertise to fill through its Centre for Applied Research and Innovation in Biotechnology (CARIB) labs and the Centre for Bioeconomy (CBE@FAN) run out of those labs. Ultimately, by providing companies with the ability to test their products to determine nutritional values, concentration of ingredients and composition of products, and stability of formulations, Fanshawe will be able to assist companies in not only de-risking the product development stage through its supports for innovation, but also reducing costs associated with taking products past that early stage of development in order to successfully go to market. On top of these benefits, the training available to Fanshawe students through their work on applied research projects with industry partners and on the requested equipment, combined with the training opportunities available for representatives from industry partners who engage with Fanshawe College personnel on projects, will help to address a growing skills gap in the sector and introduce students with the biotechnology and instrumentation skills to the innovative food and beverage companies that need their talent.