I'm with a company that's new to food. We've developed a business in refining a protein that we primarily sell as a food ingredient/processing aid (RTE). However it also has non-food applications, and our business development group is actively trying to expand the market for other uses of this protein (mainly textiles). If the food product is unfit for use, it still has value to be sold in small spot quantities for research use in other industries. Therefore we would like to avoid destroying it, instead diverting it to non-food use.
There is a lot written in these forums about the need to destroy product that has been determine non-food safe, but does anyone have a process for converting a product that started as food to a non-food use? Is documenting the conversion, and destroying our label sufficient?
TIA!