Food Safety and Food Value Chain Management

Food safety regulatory compliance: catalyst for a lean and sustainable food supply chain

The global sourcing of ingredients has created complex supply chains, significant management challenges, and additional regulatory compliance requirements. This places tremendous pressure on food manufacturers, many of whom lack the knowledge, concepts, techniques, and procedures to comply with these increased requirements. We therefore endeavor in providing a roadmap for leveraging existing investments in food safety regulatory compliance into superior inventory management, Food Safety Regulatory Compliance: Catalyst for a Lean and Sustainable Food Supply Chain explains how to implement Lean operating principles to determine what needs to be improved, in what sequence improvements must be addressed, how one improvement feeds another, and the prerequisites for each improvement.

We provide a platform that analysis and applies the cause-and-effect thinking, data accuracy, process simplification, process reliability, and workforce development. It includes recommendations for implementing best practices on Batch-Process ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and also the Lean Management System, to enable achieve the intended goals. The major focus in on the rapidly developing business requirement of sustainability, which is quickly moving from an optional, voluntary, and "nice to do" status to a "must do" status.

 

Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks

GPSD platform on Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks provides an up-to-date and interdisciplinary framework for designing and operating sustainable supply chains for agri-food products. Focus is given to decision-making procedures and methodologies enabling policy-makers, managers and practitioners to design and manage effectively sustainable agrifood supply chain networks.
We provide high profile researchers and professionals with global expertise in designing and operating sustainable supply chains in the agri-food industry. The major focus is on decision-making process for managing sustainable agrifood supply chains which covers knowledge-based farming, management of agricultural wastes, sustainability, green supply chain network design, safety, security and traceability, IT in agrifood supply chains, carbon footprint management, quality management, risk management and policy- making.

Further explores green supply chain management, sustainable knowledge-based farming, corporate social responsibility, environmental management and emerging trends in agri-food retail supply chain operations. Finally we examine sustainable practices that are unique for agriculture as well as practices that already have been implemented in other industrial sectors such as green logistics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks provides a useful resource for researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, regulators and C-level executives that deal with strategic decision-making.

Sustainable agriculture and food supply: scientific, economic, and policy enhancements

The major strategic approach is based on how to Sustainably Connect Producers and Consumers, Analysis of Production and Consumption of Organic Products in developing economies, Empowering the Citizen-Consumer through Re-Regulating Consumer Information to Support the Transition to Sustainable and Health-Promoting Food Systems among others.

Further a focus on Localizing the Food System is considered inevitable and a crucial strategy that GPSD puts emphasis on basically food Relocalization for Environmental Sustainability, Contextual Review of End-Use Selection for Small Grains and Dry Beans and Local Selling Decisions and the Technical Efficiency of Organic Farms.

Lastly evaluating the Sustainability of a Small-Scale Low-Input Organic Vegetable Supply System in the both developed and developing economies is a priority for food security and the future of Sustainable Agriculture.

The World Problem of Salmonellosis

Continuous resistance to treatment as a result of Salmonella infection (salmonellosis), a common bacterial disease that affects the intestinal tract, had proved to be a global pandemic in the developing world due to inadequate food value chain management and hygiene. Further poor methods of farming and indiscipline marketing behavior of farmers resulting to inadequate withdrawals mostly results to be a life-threatening complications which develops mostly if the infection spreads beyond your intestines.

Today Worldwide health care problems are a hot, hence the need for adequate application of Operations Research in managing data for health risk analysis. With this understanding, we emphasis on health risk modeling on human health risks. The approach covers a range of modeling and methodological issues including environmental, experimental, simulation, and mathematical modeling approaches. These modelling approaches will be used to advice our partners in ensuring management of the bacteria through the food supply chain, capacity building and food value management.