Postharvest Handling: A Systems Approach

Postharvest Handling, Third Edition takes a global perspective in offering a system of measuring, monitoring, and managing produce processing to improve food quality, minimize food waste, reduce risks and uncertainties, and maximize time and resources. This is a unique resource that provides a general understanding of the post harvest system, its role in the food value chain and offers essential tools to monitor and control the handling process, predict and combat unexpected events (e.g. spoilage), and manage the food quality and safety within a facility. Proven research methods and applications from various view points are available to help you maintain high quality produce and achieve the highest yields possible. Current challenges including oversupply, waste, food safety, lack of resources, and sustainability are addressed and best practices for production to thrive in spite of these challenges are explored. Presents current research methods and applications in temperature control and heat treatments to help minimize moisture content to prevent spoilage and mold, etcIncludes information on challenges of traceability and sustainabilityPresents testing and measurement techniques and applicationsProvides technological tools to create crop value to improve both food safety and food quality INDICE: Systems Approach to Postharvest Handling; Business Models of Fresh Produce in the United States; Challenges in Handling Fresh Fruits and Vegetables; Preharvest Physiological and Cultural Effects on Postharvest Quality; Measuring Quality and Maturity; Microbial Quality; Testing and Measuring Consumer Acceptance; Modeling Quality Characteristics; Visual Inspection and Sorting: Finding Poor Quality Before the Consumer Does; Latent Damage: A Systems Perspective; Nondestructive Evaluation: Detection of External and Internal Attributes Frequently Associated with Quality or Damage; Stress Physiology: A Cellular Approach to Quality; Logistics of Fresh Produce: Implications for Quality; Postharvest Handling Under Extreme Weather Conditions; Postharvest Handling of Locally Grown Produce; Refrigeration of Fresh Produce From Field to Home: Logistics and Refrigeration and the Refrigerator; Challenges in Quality of Organic Produce; The Shrinking System: Quality Specificity of Fresh Cut Vegetables and Fruit; Tropical Fresh Fruit: Quality Challenge; Food Safety: Food Safety and Product Integrity in Critical Points Within the Production and Distribution System; Quality Management: An Industrial Approach ot Produce Handling; Produce Marketing: New Techniques At the Supermarket; Consumer Eating Habits and Fresh Produce Quality; Genetic Modification Improvements in Fresh Produce Quality: Implications for Systems Approach; Quality of Fresh Produce and Public Health; Regulation of Fresh Produce Postharvest HAndling; Interdisciplinary Solutions to Challenges in Postharvest Handling

• ISBN: 978-0-12-408137-6
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 624
• Fecha Publicación: 26/06/2014
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés