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• Starting a licensed food business

  Published on May 8, 2017
  Starting a licensed food business training will help you understand how to turn your food business idea into a successful commercial reality.

• Flint’s local food movement innovates to increase healthy food access

  Published on May 2, 2017
  Healthy food access is a key strategy in fighting lead exposure and improving one’s diet, and several innovative programs are up and running in Flint to increase the availability of healthy food in non-traditional ways.

• Help implement new food date terminology

  Published on April 3, 2017
  New food expiration date terminology can save food from waste.

• Tools to encourage redevelopment in your downtown

  Published on March 27, 2017
  Collaboration between business and local government for a positive impact on your community.

• Reviewing business performance: The key to attaining a competitive advantage

  Published on March 27, 2017
  Understand the necessity of performance indicators can provide a business the tools to insure it will be able to reach it is competitiveness.

• Marketing strategies: Knowing where your company fits

  Published on March 27, 2017
  Every company should know the strengths they are employing to penetrate into the marketplace.

• Upper Peninsula Cottage Food Law classes teach regulations and marketing

  Published on March 23, 2017
  The two hour workshop not only covers the regulations around producing under Michigan’s Cottage Food Law but also covers items related to food safety and business aspects such as marketing your product.

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  High School Aquaculture Challenge program kicks off

  Published on March 15, 2017
  Competition engages students in a real-world, hands-on science and business experience.

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  Food Safety Summit focused on safe produce, certified growers for FSMA

  Published on March 13, 2017
  Second annual Southwest Michigan Food Safety Summit certifies 45 growers.

• Are you thinking of a cottage food business?

  Published on March 6, 2017
  Consider taking a Cottage Food Law class through MSU Extension.