The Food Technology staff sent a questionnaire to the Chief Research Officers of 100 major food companies, asking about the areas of research that their departments were involved in. Of the 100 CROs surveyed, 38 returned the questionnaire. Here are the results.
Research spending apparently is keeping pace with inflation, but not much more. Most of the 38 CROs answering the survey noted that their budget for food science was “about the same” as last year, while 17 of the 38 noted that the budget w…