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Specialties that pay

• Food safety and regulatory affairs

  The people who keep a company out of a recall. Consistently the best paid branch.

• Sensory science

  Designing and running trained taste panels and reading the statistics. A small, well paid specialty.

• Food engineering and process design

  Scaling a recipe from a kitchen bowl to a line producing tons an hour.

• Packaging science

  Shelf life is mostly a packaging problem, and few scientists specialize in it.