The Industrial SupportResearch Center cultivates world-class food companies through establishing analysis technologies and fostering the food industry market.

The center serves as the control tower to promote the food industry as a national growth engine and to provide high quality, safe foods to the cons니mers. It performs services such as providing a networking platform between the food industry and researchers, and supports for SMEs in the areas of research collaborations and ingredient analysis, technical trainings, and consulting.

Enterprise Solution Research Center

Major Acivity

• Provision of technical and management support for SMEs
• Supporting research projects linked with local government development grants
• Identification of SMEs with growth potential
• Support to promote networking within the food industry
• Technical training programs specialized in food
• Economics analysis of products and technologies under development
• Research on the development of the food industry, food consumption, marketing, market structure and food statistics
• Activities related to national food quality certifications
• Support for international food certifications
• Operation of the Halal Lab and the export consulting center

Food Analysis Research Center

Major Research

• Research on new analytical technologies to evaluate food quality and risks
• Examination of food components and provision of analysis technologies across KFRI
• Conducting quality assessments for products certified by the government and food products in the market
• Analysis of food components with analytic equipment
  - HPLC, GC, LC-MS, GC-MS, ICP-OES, ICP-MS, etc.
• Analysis of general food components

Food Standard Research Center

Major Research

• Standardization of the key ingredients in the most consumed foods and quality standardization of raw materials during processing
• Standardization of safety and quality of distribution for restaurants and group catering
• Development of standards in response to changing distribution systems and emerging food markets
• Establishment and revision of standards/specifications, such as KS, traditional food, and CODEX

Infrastructure Support Team

Major Research

• Operation of Experimental Animal Research Laboratory
• Experimental animal modeling and research technology support
• Management of Pilot Plant
• Processing raw material and supporting pilot product production technology