UMaine Extension launches website to help speciality food producers, AP reports
The Associated Press reported the University of Maine Cooperative Extension has launched a website that aims to help food manufacturers looking to work in specialty products. The Resources for Food Entrepreneurs website has information about Recipe to Market, a UMaine Extension educational program designed for people who want to start specialty food businesses, according to the AP. The website also links to state licensing agencies, testing services and a commercially licensed kitchen that can be rented at UMaine, the AP reported. The website was created by UMaine Extension regional small-business educator and Extension professor Louis Bassano; Extension food science specialist and associate professor of food science Beth Calder; and Extension business and economics specialist and professor of economics James McConnon. The Washington Times, Portland Press Herald and U.S. News & World Report carried the AP article.