R&D Survey - Introduction

Thank you for taking Food Processing's 53rd annual R&D Survey. It should only take 5 minutes. Your answers will provide us and all our readers with insight into product development priorities for this year. The story will appear online and in our June issue. All answers are confidential, but if you do provide your name and contact information at the end, we'll enter you in a drawing for one of four $50 Amazon gift cards.
* Questions marked with an asterisk are mandatory.

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* 1. Please let us know you're a human by telling us what day it is:

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* 2. Which of the following general targets will be the most important for your R&D efforts this year? (choose only one)

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* 3. What ingredients will you be working most on this year? (You may choose more than one)

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* 4. Are you worried about reformulating without some of the ingredients banned by some states (like Red 3, titanium dioxide, brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben)?

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* 5. Are you having any current trouble sourcing ingredients?

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* 6. If yes, please list those ingredients:

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* 7. Generally, how much have your ingredient costs gone up over the past year? In the aggregate, we mean—we know there’s a lot of variance.

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* 8. Have you done anything on the product development side to cut costs, to ease the inflationary increases that have been passed on to consumers?

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* 9. Are you using any artificial intelligence in your lab or the bigger product development process? If so, explain how.

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* 10. Do you think the GLP-1/weight loss drugs (Wegovy, Ozempic, Mounjaro) will have any impact on your company's sales?

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* 11. What's happened to your R&D dept.'s budget this year?

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* 12. Are front-of-pack labeling proposals likely to affect your R&D priorities?

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