The YAMCO Process

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The YAMCO Process

• First of Its Kind

Gary Cartwright, North Carolina State
University Food, Bioprocessing Nutrition
Sciences
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YAMCO MILESTONES

• 2004
• Spring - First successful NCSU Runs
• Summer - Initial Sweetpotato Growers Meetings
• 2006
• Yamco, LLC formed
• 2007
• August First Yamco equipment delivered
• December Successful Yamco production run
• 2008
• January Visit by FDA Process Engineers
• February FDA Letter of No Objection

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Simply Revolutionary
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• The
• Advantages
• Of
• This
• Process?

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• Safer Food Supply
• Superior Nutritional Value
• Added Value for NC Products
• Expanded Markets for NC Products
• Rural Jobs in North Carolina
• And

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• Across the Board Partnerships To Give NC
  Agriculture the Advantage

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From University Labs
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To Reality
Aseptic Sweetpotato Puree YAMCO, Snow Hill, NC
Batch 001-12-14-2007
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Thank You

• Contributors
• Dr. K.P. Sandeep
• Dr. Ken Swartzel
• Dr. Josip Simunovic
• Dr. Pablo Coronel
• Dr. Van Den Truong

• Owners Yamco, LLC
• NCDA CS
• Industrial Microwave Systems
• Grant Smith
• Stephen Spinak