As a technical center, the CTCPA assists many food industry professionals. The Center is recognized by the DGAL (French food Administration) as a center of reference for the definition and the validation of thermal treatment scales.

The services of the CTCPA include advice and audits, trial runs and pilot production, analysis, training within and between companies.  The documentation services of the CTCPA helps the companies as well as the expert of the CTCPA to monitor the regulation and to find scientific publications.

The CTCPA achieves its general interest missions thanks to a fiscal contribution paid by French companies working in the canned and dehydrated food sector.  These companies represent nearly 40% of the center’s resources.
The missions include:

• collective research programs
• transfer of technology,
• expertise,
• representing the profession,
• scientific, technical, and regulatory watch
• technical support to professionals through question and answer service,
• valorization of the research results

The research orientations of the CTCPA and the nature of its general interest missions are established through a contract of objectives and means lasting many years. This contract is defined between the minister in charge of the food sector and the concerned professional syndicate (Fiac).