Food Safety and Quality Systems in Developing Countries Volume One: Export Challenges and Implementation Strategies
Coordonnateur : Gordon André
Food Safety and Quality Systems in Developing Countries, Volume One: ExportChallenges and Implementation Strategiesconsiders both the theoretical and practical aspects of food safety and quality systems implementation by major world markets and new and emerging markets in developing countries. This reference examines issues facing exporters and importers of traditional foods the characteristics of the food and its distribution channels, and market access from a historical and current context to present best practices.
This must-have reference offers real-life, practical approaches for foods from around the world, offering help to those who have found it difficult to implement sustainable, certifiable food safety and quality systems into their businesses and provides scientifically sound solutions to support their implementation.
1. Trade, Food Science and Standard Considerations: Exporting of Traditional Fruits to the US 2. Natural Toxins in Fruits and Vegetables: Blighia sapida and Hypoglycin 3. The Life Cycle of the Fruit: Environmental and other impacts on toxicity 4. Biochemistry of Hypoglycin and Toxic Hypoglycaemic Syndrome 5. Effective Science-based Approaches to Establishing Safe Food Handling Practices for Traditional Foods: the Ackee Example 6. Re-entering the US Market with Jamaican Ackees: A Case Study 7. Dealing with Trade Challenges: Science-based solutions to Market Access Interruption 8. The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and its impact on the Caribbean's Approach to Export Market Access
Food safety practitioners, regulators around the world; trade practitioners, international trade lawyers, exporters in developing countries (globally), buyers interested in imports from developing countries, international organizations, universities and lecturers on food safety, food export trading house businesses; Consultants, Food Science students, agriculture students
- Includes accessible, relevant case studies of instances when food safety was compromised and offers practical scientific input in dealing with and preventing these issues
- Discusses the role and importance of research and documentation of food safety when exporting products
- Presents risk analysis examples from the past and present for products from various countries and different perspectives including the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, India, South Africa, Haiti, Jamaica, and more
- Offers successful strategies for developing food safety and quality systems from a national and firm-level perspective relevant to academics, regulators, exporters, importers and major distributors handling food from various developing countries
Date de parution : 06-2015
Ouvrage de 186 p.
15x22.8 cm
Thème de Food Safety and Quality Systems in Developing Countries :
Mots-clés :
ackee; Amaranthus sp; analytical regime; Annona muricata; biochemistry of hypoglycin A; Blighia sapida; breakdown in practices; Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ); Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN); critical control points (CCP); developing countries; export-market access; food safety; Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA); fruits and vegetables; Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI); good manufacturing practices (GMPs); Good Manufacturing Practises; HACCP; hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP); HGA; hypoglycin A; import alert; Jamaica Exporters' Association (JEA); Jamaican Ackee Task Force (JATF); Jamaican vomiting sickness (JVS); LD50; level of maturity; low-acid canned food (LACF) regulations; market access; mechanism of detoxification; MTD; natural toxins; preventive controls; quality assurance; raw material handling and processing; reaping practices; regulatory oversight; safe-handling practices; sampling; Solanum melongena; Spondias dulcis; SPS and TBT; toxic hypoglycemic syndrome (THS); toxin; traditional knowledge; US Department of Agriculture (USDA); US Food and Drug Administration (FDA); varietal differences