FoodOn: a harmonized food ontology to increase global food traceability, quality control and data integration

FoodON: A Global Farm-to-Fork Food Ontology

Several resources and standards for indexing food descriptors currently exist, but their content and interrelations are not semantically and logically coherent. Simultaneously, the need to represent knowledge about food is central to many fields including biomedicine and sustainable development. FoodON is a new ontology built to interoperate with the OBO Library and to represent entities which ...

ENHANCING FOOD SAFETY AND QUALITY THROUGH ISOTOPIC TECHNIQUES FOR FOOD TRACEABILITY A. Introduction

Producing safe and high quality food is a prerequisite to ensure consumer health and successful domestic and international trade, and is critical to the sustainable development of national agricultural resources. Systems to trace food or feed products through specified stages of production, processing and distribution play a key role in assuring food safety. Such traceability systems are typica...

Editorial board: Journal of Food Quality and Hazards Control

Food Safety Traceability

Traceability, Inspection, and Food Safety

Traceability exists in many food supply chains for valid economic reasons, one of which is improving food safety and quality. Some politicians and consumer groups are calling for increased identity preservation in systems where traceability has not yet been adopted. In this paper, we explore the implications of adding traceability to a food supply chain that already includes an inspection proto...