Synopsis
The safety of agri-food supply chains remains under constant threat from risks such as food adulteration, malicious contamination, microbiological and chemical hazards, as well as the presence of foreign bodies in food products.
Developing smart agri-food supply chains: Using technology to improve safety and quality provides an authoritative assessment of recent developments to improve safety and quality at key points in the agri-food supply chain. This collection provides a comprehensive coverage of the methods used in tracking and traceability (including detecting genetically-modified organisms in food products), ways of assessing product integrity, dealing with malicious contamination as well as quality assessment and ensuring transparency in supply chains.
Edited by Professor Louise Manning, Royal Agricultural University, UK, Developing smart agri-food supply chains: Using technology to improve safety and quality will be a standard reference for those researching food safety, agri-food logistics and supply chains in universities or other research centres, as well as government and commercial agencies responsible for safety and quality monitoring of agri-food supply chains. It will also be a key reference for supply chain actors, from farmers to food processors and retailers.
About the Authors
Dr Louise Manning is Professor of Agri-Food and Supply Chain Security at the Royal Agricultural University, UK. With over 30 years of experience in both industry and research, Professor Manning is internationally-renowned for her work on food safety and quality, food integrity and food crime. She is an Associate Editor for the British Food Journal, a Fellow of the Institute of Food Science and Technology and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Rothamsted Research.
Dr Sara Erasmus is an experienced Food Science/Meat Science Researcher who received her PhD in Food Science from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has a demonstrated history of working in higher education and has a profound interest in the authentication and integrity of food.
Dr Kerry Walsh is a Professor at Central Queensland University working in the field of assessment of fruit quantity and quality. Dr Walsh' research focusses on the development of near infrared spectroscopy for assessment of fruit quality in both online and hand held formats, as well as the development of machine vision based tools for assessment of tree fruit load in terms of both fruit number and size.
Dr. Bruno Basso is an agro-ecosystem scientist and University Foundation Professor in Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and W.K. Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University. He is a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America and the American Society of Agronomy, and 2016 recipient of the Innovation of the year award and 2019 Outstanding Faculty Award at Michigan State University and the recipient of the 2021 Morgan Stanley Sustainable Solutions Prize. He is ranked as top 2% scientist across all disciplines and 0.006% in the field of Agronomy, Agriculture, Meteorology. He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University.
Saurabh Bhattacharya is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. The teaching and research interest of Saurabh lies with research methods and digital marketing. In academic publications, Saurabh has published research papers in leading national and international journals such as Journal of World Business, Journal of Advertising Research, Psychology & Marketing, and Journal of International Consumer Marketing.
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