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Career prospects and job opportunities:
Food technology is a vast industry and so are the career opportunities. Food technologists can have a bright career in hotels, quality control departments, food industries, packaging industries, hospitals, distilleries, soft drink factories and rice mills, etc. Food technologists can also work in research laboratories or in the production industry to develop new products, test current ones and control the quality of food.
Working in a manufacturing industry can also give you fruitful results as this sector needs people from grass-root level to the higher level. Food technologists can have bright career prospects in public as well as private sector.
Depending on the qualification and experience, one can start as:
Product developer
Production supervisor
Production executive
Quality controller
Production manager
Research director