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Start, Manage and Grow A Business:
Food Processing

Author: OMAFRA Staff
Creation Date: 27 September 2005
Last Reviewed: 14 avril 2009

Your Guide to Food Processing in Ontario (PDF version) (plain text HTML version) is an internet-based tool for entrepreneurs starting food-processing businesses. The guide is intended to help the food business entrepreneur start, manage and grow their business.

The Guide takes a look at some of the important areas specific to the food processing business, including information on researching, manufacturing and marketing commercial-scale food products, as well as comprehensive guidelines for food safety, quality assurance and government regulations. Numerous contacts and on-line links throughout the Guide direct the reader to resources, such as business planning, financing and taxation.

Food Industry Facts:
Currently, the province is home to 3,500 food processors that contribute more than $32.5 billion to the economy and employ almost 120,000 people.

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