TOWARDS FOOD SAFETY: QUALITY MANAGEMENT PECULIARITIES

Food Quality and Safety

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

Coordinating Management of Food Safety and Water Quality

Eff orts to exclude disease organisms from farms growing irrigated lettuce and leafy vegetables on California’s central coast are confl icting with traditionally accepted strategies to protect surface water quality. To begin resolving this dilemma, over 100 offi cials, researchers, and industry representatives gathered in April 2007 to set research priorities that could lead to eff ective co-ma...

Organic Food Quality & Safety Perception

Many more consumers have tried at least once organic food, but despite higher consumer awareness, they still show a great concern about food quality and safety. Recent research showed that there is still little knowledge of how organic products are produced and processed and which characteristics are fundamental for the consumer with regard to quality and safety. In this scenario, primary produ...

Equivalence in Food Safety Management

Food safety has long been recognised as a mandatory requirement in the production and marketing of foods. Traditional approaches to food safety management have relied upon end product sampling and laboratory testing. Detailed procedures were developed to set specifications for foods in regard to chemical and microbiological levels, and also levels of physical contamination. Such specifications ...