Fulfilling Changing Consumer Expectations of the Food Supply

The food industry has a long history of responding to changing demands for the products and services its customers desire. Consumer interest in food products and services has evolved, deepened, and diversified from array and price, to convenience and safety, to nutritional characteristics, to how and where foods are available, to how they are produced, processed, and distributed.

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