Food Safety and Quality Systems in Developing Countries: Volume One: Export Challenges and Implementation Strategies

✍ Scribed by Andre Gordon

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

• 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

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
List of Contributors, Page ix, Orane Blake, André Gordon, Jose Jackson-Malete, James Kerr, Joyce Saltsman, George Ware
Preface, Pages xi-xiii, André Gordon
Acknowledgments, Pages xv-xvi, André Gordon
Chapter 1 - Exporting Traditional Fruits and Vegetables to the United States: Trade, Food Science, and Sanitary and Phytosanitary/Technical Barriers to Trade Considerations, Pages 1-15, André Gordon
Chapter 2 - Natural Toxins in Fruits and Vegetables: Blighia sapida and Hypoglycin, Pages 17-32, Jose Jackson-Malete, Orane Blake, André Gordon
Chapter 3 - The Life Cycle of Ackee (Blighia sapida): Environmental and Other Influences on Toxicity, Pages 33-46, André Gordon, Jose Jackson-Malete
Chapter 4 - Biochemistry of Hypoglycin and Toxic Hypoglycemic Syndrome, Pages 47-61, André Gordon
Chapter 5 - Effective Science-Based Approaches to Establishing Safe Food Handling Practices for Traditional Foods: The Ackee Example, Pages 63-89, André Gordon
Chapter 6 - Re-entering the US Market with Jamaican Ackees: A Case Study, Pages 91-114, André Gordon, Joyce Saltsman, George Ware, James Kerr
Chapter 7 - Dealing with Trade Challenges: Science-Based Solutions to Market-Access Interruption, Pages 115-128, André Gordon
Chapter 8 - The Food Safety Modernization Act and Its Impact on the Caribbean’s Approach to Export Market Access, Pages 129-145, Joyce Saltsman, André Gordon
Appendix I, Pages 147-149
Appendix II, Pages 151-152
References, Pages 153-161
Subject Index, Pages 163-170