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Technicals guidelines for the African industry

For each ten products studied, a technical guideline has been created for African producers and industries.

With the objective to make scientific information accessible to processors, each guideline presents a detailed process to local processors, giving them all the keys to understand the important parameters of each step of the process. It also demonstrates the advantages of the reengineered steps over the traditional steps of the process, opening the possibilities for producing new products. The same structure has been use for the 10:

  • AFTER presentation and explanations about the guideline
  • Presentation of the product concerned (origin,category, sensorial and compositional qualities, comparison with a similar product to demonstrate advantages)
  • Presentation of the reengineered process with a diagram
  • Good Hygiene practices, as a basis adapted to the product: pictures, tools used, etc.
  • Description of the reeengineered process, with details for each step, pictures to illustrate, parameters to be able to follow the process, characteristics of the product obtained at the end of each step, utility and reason of each step and for the reengineered steps: advantages of these new steps compared to the traditional process
  • Results of consumer’s test, to prove the potential of the product and it’s acceptance on the market and to show new possibilities of innovative products

The content has been written by each product champion, in strong collaboration with CIRAD.The final layout has been proposed by CIRAD and used as a template by ACTIA to create the 10 guidelines expected in the most appropriate language (French or English – one language chosen by product). These guidelines will be distributed to producers and industries concerned thanks to AAFEX network.

Published: 18/05/2015