FSSC 22000 Certification as a Food Security Tool

National Food and Nutrition Security System (SAMAT), A Tool for Identifying and Monitoring Food Insecurity in the Country

Background and objectives: Iran was reported in the high-risk group of World Food Security Map in 2008 .Identifying food insecurity is first step for executing interventions. Measuring household food security is its cornerstone. SAMAT System was designed to provide a variety of GIS-based reports to policy makers and managers in the field of food security. Methods and Materials: SAMAT system wa...

Iso 22000 Standard: a Food Safety Management System

Given this, initiatives have been undertaken in many countries to formulate more or less voluntary rules. But the vast increase in the number of private reference systems based on the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) method led to a certain amount of confusion among the various groups in the food industry. In September 2005, after three years of work, ISO published a universal ref...

Closing gaps: integrating food safety management systems into the veterinary curriculum, as a tool to improve food quality and trade

Dietary Diversity as a Food Security Indicator

Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an appropriate measure of food security outcomes is useful in order to identify the food insecure, assess the seve...

Stackable File Systems as a Security Tool

Programmers often prefer to use existing system security services, such as file system security, rather than implement their own in an application. Traditional Unix security is generally considered inadequate and few operating systems offer enhanced security features such as ACLs[24] or immutable files[12]. Additional file system security features are always sought, but implementing them is a d...