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Specialties to know
Food safety and regulatory affairs
The people who keep a company out of a recall.
Sensory science
Designing and running trained taste panels and reading the statistics. A small 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.