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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Identify product development opportunity
   • Research baked product trends to identify opportunities for new product development for local market
   • Review current baked product range to identify opportunities for improving products and processes
   • Evaluate identified opportunities to define and document product development purpose and concept
2. Specify development requirements
   • Interpret product development concepts to prepare product specifications
   • Develop and document draft recipes to meet product specifications and Food Standards Code
   • Adjust draft recipes to meet special dietary, cultural or religious needs
   • Select processes and develop draft process specifications and production work flow to meet product specifications
   • Estimate product costings using draft recipes and draft process specifications
3. Prepare for production trials
   • Schedule and confirm availability of equipment to meet draft process specifications
   • Identify ingredients to meet draft recipes and check to confirm quality and quantity
   • Identify equipment and resource constraints, and resolve according to workplace procedures
   • Identify and assess food safety and workplace health and safety risks, and determine risk controls
4. Conduct production trials
   • Produce trial products using draft recipes and process specifications
   • Implement and monitor food safety and workplace health and safety risk controls
   • Monitor production trial to identify production trial problems and rectify
   • Record production trial process data according to workplace procedures
   • Evaluate trial products against product specifications to identify non-conformances
   • Interpret process data and trial product evaluation results to adjust recipes and process variables, and coordinate successive production trials to meet product specifications
   • Record production trial variables and results according to workplace procedures
5. Confirm product development
   • Schedule and reproduce product to confirm recipe and process specification
   • Assess suitability of existing packaging supplies for final product packaging
   • Evaluate final product to verify product specifications and food safety requirements are met
   • Calculate final product cost using final recipes and process specifications
   • Determine product pricing and confirm commercial viability