Food product development companies don’t live in a bubble. They live in recalls, shelf failures, lawsuits, and quiet harm that never makes the news. Anyone who tells you otherwise hasn’t been close enough to see it. This industry moves fast, but the consequences move faster. One bad ingredient decision. One rushed formulation. One ignored warning sign. And suddenly people get hurt....

Food product development companies like to talk about innovation. New flavors. Better textures. Faster shelf life. All of that sounds nice. But neutrality is gone. It doesn’t exist anymore, if it ever did. When you help bring food to market, you’re shaping what people put in their bodies. Daily. Sometimes multiple times a day. That’s not abstract. That’s intimate. This...