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Value-Added Processing and By-Product Recovery

Ron Thomas 864-656-5697

It is evident that a domestic marketing strategy will require a regional processing facility capable of ensuring a high quality, safe product following a thorough HAACP plan, the development of packaging and labeling capabilities for wider distribution, and the capability of by-product recovery from waste shell to further ensure the profitability of the processing facility. It is proposed that each of these areas be addressed as follows:

1) Development of a HACCP plan to ensure the delivery of a safe product with the consideration of the requirements for longer shelf life and a high quality product.
Both processing conditions and packaging requirements must be optimized.

2) Determine the most aesthetic yet durable package for a wider distribution of the product. Processing and packaging operations must be synchronized and packaging operations and cost of materials will be optimized. A thorough economic analysis of these operations will be required.

3) As a by-product of the shrimp industry, shrimp shells could prove to have
tremendous value. The feasibility of processing operations also converting waste
shells to the by-product, chitin, should be determined. Chitin is currently used in
a variety of ways commercially, most notably as a source of chitosan and
glucoseamine in the nutraceutical industry. About 15% of the dry weight of
shrimp is chitin. The basic process of extracting chitin from shells has been
established, but the adaptation of a processing facility to also process shells in
in a continuous mode needs to be established.

Budget:
Faculty salaries $30,000
Graduate student stipends 20,000
Supplies 15,000
Travel 15,000

TOTAL $80,000

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