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Objective 6.
To support and develop infrastructure.
2.6. Action Plan.
2.6.a.1. A domestic marketing
strategy may require a regional processing facility(ies) 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.
2.6.a.2. Packaging Science faculty will address each
of these areas as follows:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 glucosamine 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 shrimp processing facility to also process shells in a continuous
mode needs to be established.
2.6.a.3. Budget
Faculty salaries = $23,810.00, fringes
(26%) = $6,190, graduate student stipends = $20,000, supplies = $15,000;
travel reimbursed at customary Clemson University rates = $15,000; total
= $80,000.
2.6.b. Additional as yet unidentified contractors
will be secured to address infrastructure issues = $700,000.
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