PROCESS NOTES  ·  ISSUE #001  ·  WEEKLY
Welcome to
Process Notes
 
 
 
From bench to production line — practical food engineering,
delivered every Tuesday.
🔬  Food Scientists & R&D
⚙️  Process & Manufacturing Engineers
🚀  Food Entrepreneurs & Founders
 

By Galvin Eyong  ·  Tuesday Edition

R&D  ·  SCALE-UP  ·  FOOD SAFETY

If you're reading this, you probably already know the feeling.

You're standing in front of a production-scale kettle, a batch that looked perfect on paper — and something is off. The texture isn't right. The viscosity dropped. The heat transfer data that made total sense in the lab is behaving completely differently at scale.

Nobody warned you about this in food science school. And the trade magazines aren't writing step-by-step guides about it either.

That gap — between what we learned and what we actually face on the floor — is exactly why I started Process Notes.

 
THE PRACTITIONER BEHIND THESE NOTES

I'm Galvin Eyong

An R&D Process Engineer and Food System Expert with hands-on experience designing, optimizing, and scaling food production lines from early concept through full commissioning.

I've spent years bridging the space between the bench and the production line — developing formulations, troubleshooting scale-up failures, navigating food safety compliance, and helping food businesses figure out how to actually manufacture the product they invented.

I'm not an academic writing theory. I'm a practitioner who has made the mistakes, fixed the problems, and learned the lessons that textbooks and trade magazines don't cover.

And now I want to share them with you — clearly, practically, and without the jargon.

 
WHO THIS IS FOR

Three types of people built for this newsletter

🔬
Food Scientists & R&D
Practical knowledge you can use at work this week — not just research papers to file away.
 
⚙️
Process & Manufacturing Engineers
Equipment, yield, GMP, CIP — and everything that goes wrong before a big production run.
 
🚀
Food Entrepreneurs & Founders
Scale your product, find co-manufacturers, and survive contact with a real factory.

If you're in one of these three groups — welcome. This was built for you.

 
WHAT TO EXPECT EVERY WEEK

One of these lands every Tuesday

🔍  Deep-dive how-tos Step-by-step engineering guides on heat exchanger sizing, CIP design, process validation, and shelf-life testing.
 
📋  Case studies & teardowns Real scale-up stories — what went wrong, the fix, and what to watch for next time.
 
📐  Frameworks & templates HACCP plans, batch records, scale-up checklists, cost calculators. Pull off the shelf and use today.
 
📰  Industry analysis What's changing in food safety regulation, ingredient science, and food tech — and what it means for your day-to-day work.
One filter drives every issue: "Will this help someone do their job better this week?"
 

Before I go any further, I want to make sure I'm writing about the right things.

Hit reply and tell me: what's the one problem in your food engineering or product development work that you wish someone would just explain clearly?

Scale-up failures? FSMA compliance? Finding a co-manufacturer? Formulation stability? I read every reply — your answers shape what I cover.

 
📌  COMING UP IN ISSUE #002
HACCP Demystified — How to Build a Food Safety Plan That Actually Works

→  What HACCP actually is (and what it isn't)

→  The 7 principles — explained with real food production examples

→  The most common mistakes that get businesses flagged during audits

→  How to structure a plan that holds up under scrutiny

I'll also be sharing the exact HACCP Template Pack I've built from real-world plans — so you don't have to start from a blank page.

Thanks for being here from the start. There's something special about Issue #001 — the people who show up before there's any track record are the ones who shape what this becomes. I won't take that lightly.

See you next Tuesday.

Galvin Eyong
Food System Expert  ·  Process Notes
   
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