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From the Cornell Food Venture Center : The Cornell Food Venture Center provides assistance to validate safety and stability of food products entering the marketplace including: -Lab Analysis for pH, water activity, and Brix of food and beverage products -Process Authority approval and Scheduled Process: Product Review, Documentation, and Process Validation -Resources for Nutrition Analysis, Co-packers, Packaging Suppliers, Shelf-Life Studies, and More! -Regulatory Compliance: Registration and Licensing with State and FDA agencies -Small Scale Food Entrepreneurship: A Technical Guide for Food Ventures -Better Process Control School: Necessary certification for Acidified and Low Acid Food manufacturers. -Food Science 101 -Presentations and workshops: Interested? Contact Shannon Prozeller The Cornell dropbox link includes everything you will need to work with the university, register with the State and FDA, information on Small Scale Food Production and more. Services su

Take The Test . Twenty questions you need to ask yourself. Developed by Babson College professor Daniel Isenberg, this piece is from The View from Harvard Business . *** This is rather entrepreneurial: Caring for Pets Left Behind by the Rapture For a fee, this service will place your dog or cat in the home of a caring atheist on Judgment Day. By Mike Di Paola, Bloomburg Business Week Many people in the U.S.—perhaps 20 million to 40 million—believe there will be a Second Coming in their lifetimes, followed by the Rapture . In this event, they say, the righteous will be spirited away to a better place while the godless remain on Earth. But what will become of all the pets? Bart Centre, 61, a retired retail executive in New Hampshire, says many people are troubled by this question, and he wants to help. He started a service called Eternal Earth-Bound Pets that promises to rescue and care for animals left behind by the saved. (Hat tip to Steve Bissette .)

The test consists of 20 questions from four areas; the last grouping is audible recognition, so I hope you have your sound on your computers. I got 18 out of 20, but misread one of the questions or I would have gotten 19. How did YOU do?