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Food Innovation Center

Who We Are

The Food Innovation Center at Rutgers University is a unique food business incubator and accelerator that is a unit of the Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES). The Center supports established early stage entrepreneurs and existing food companies from concept to commercialization. Combining years of industry expertise and the advanced technologies offered by Rutgers, we provide business, marketing, food safety, product design and scale up expertise within FDA and USDA certified facilities to help companies successfully build and grow their business.

 

Learn

FIC has leading industry experts available to teach a broad range of business and technical classes. Learn more about our food safety and food business basics courses, seminars and workshops. Food … Read More

Innovate

FIC supports passionate food businesses seeking customized solutions for their product concepts from idea to market. We have worked with a breadth of different clients including early stage entrepreneurs and … Read More

Accelerate

Stay tuned…another great program under development to build on our incubator successes…and further help food startups maximize their chance of success! … Read More

Upcoming Training Classes

Jan 23: GMPs & Adverse Health
Location: FIC North, 120 New England Ave.
Piscataway, NJ 08854

Jan 27: Food Business Basics
Location: FIC South, 450 East Broad Street. Bridgeton, NJ 08302

Jan 30: GMPs & Adverse Health
Location: FIC South, 450 East Broad Street. Bridgeton, NJ 08302

Feb 20: GMPs & Adverse Health
Location: FIC North, 120 New England Ave.
Piscataway, NJ 08854

FIC News

Rutgers Food Innovation Center Makes Delicious Dreams a Reality: BTN LiveBIG (VIDEO)

CBS News Video Featuring FIC: NJ Entrepreneurs Develop Pizza-In-A-Cone (VIDEO)

Donna Schaffner and Her Team Provide Food Safety Training to Hundreds of Food and Beverage Companies

From Concept to Creation: FIC ‘One Stop Shop’

A Little Clarity: Health Woes Draw an IT Professional Back to Historical Family Food Biz

Don’t Have a Cow – How the Impossible Burger Got Its Remarkable Start at Rutgers

Client News

Sandeep Agarwal, President & CEO of Pure Indian Foods, is the recipient of the New Jersey Immigrant Entrepreneur Award

The Impossible Burger Makes Maiden Voyage into Retail

Impossible Food and Roudoula Win 2019 NRA Fabi Award

Bon Appetit Applauds Vista Hermosa Delicious Flour Tortillas

 

 

Food Innovation Center at Rutgers University
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Food Innovation Center | 856-459-1900
nl95@njaes.rutgers.edu

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