
Postharvest Handling
A Systems Approach
Academic Press
3rd Edition
Published on 30. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
592 pages
978-0-12-810099-8 (ISBN)
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Description
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 unique resource provides an overview of the postharvest system and its role in the food value chain, and offers essential tools to monitor and control the handling process. It shows how to 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 viewpoints are available to help you maintain high-quality produce and achieve the highest yields possible. The book also explores current challenges-including oversupply, waste, food safety, lack of resources, sustainability-and best practices for production to thrive in spite of these challenges.
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Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Postharvest physiologists or technologists across the disciplines of agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, food sciences, and horticulture along with handlers of fresh or minimally processed products within the fresh produce processing industries will find this to be an invaluable resource.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-12-810099-8 (9780128100998)
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Persons
Wojciech J. Florkowski has over 18 years of experience in research, project management, and training. His areas of specialization and expertise include agricultural economics and international business with emphasis on marketing and consumer studies, technology transfer and assessment, environmental policy analysis, and research policy. He is the author of over 200 publications on a variety of economic, marketing, consumer and policy issues, including the problems of agricultural productivity, policy, consumer willingness-to-pay and price behavior. He?co-edited?"Postharvest?Handling: A Systems Approach? (3rd edition) Nigel Banks worked as a Professor of Postharvest Technology at Massey University and at ZESPRI as General Manager for Innovation, where he learned branding, growers, consumers, ways to connect them and the added value of an outstanding team. Through Postharvest.Co, Nigel is exploring new ways to connect postharvesters, art, online tools and learning with an eye to the increasingly pressing needs of our future world. Robert L Shewfelt is Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia. He advises more than 50 students and has taught 11 different courses in the past two years ranging from Freshman Seminars in Chocolate Science and Coffee Technology to graduate-level courses in Food Research & the Scientific Method. Dr. Shewfelt was also the 2006 recipient of the Cruess Award for Excellence in Teaching of IFT. He?co-edited?"Postharvest?Handling: A Systems Approach? (3rd edition)
Editor
University of Georgia, Griffin, GA, USA
Postharvest.Co Limited, Mount Maunganui, New Zealand
The University of Georgia, Athens, USA
The University of Georgia, Griffin, USA
Content
1. Postharvest systems - New Contexts, New Imperatives
2. Challenges in Handling Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
3. Consumer Eating Habits and Perceptions of Fresh Produce Quality
4. Testing and Measuring Consumer Acceptance
5. Nutritional Quality of Fruits and Vegetables
6. Value Chain Management and Postharvest Handling
7. Consumer Expenditure on Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Purchase
8. Postharvest Regulation and Quality Standards on Fresh Produce
9. Fresh-cut Product Quality: Implications for a Systems Approach
10. Postharvest Handling and Quality Maintenance of Tropical Fruits
11. Microbial Quality and Safety of Fresh Produce
12. Sorting for Defects
13. Non-destructive Evaluation: Detection of External and Internal Attributes Frequently Associated with Quality and Damage
14. Measuring Quality and Maturity
15. Modeling Quality Attributes and Quality Related Product Properties
16. The Supply Value Chain of Fresh Produce from Field to Home: Refrigeration and Other Supporting Technologies
17. Traceability in Postharvest Systems
18. Fruits and Vegetables in International Trade: Forensic Aspects of Cargo Claims
19. Innovative and Integrated Approaches to Investigate Postharvest Stress Physiology and the Biological Basis of Fruit Quality During Storage
20. Challenges in Postharvest Handling
2. Challenges in Handling Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
3. Consumer Eating Habits and Perceptions of Fresh Produce Quality
4. Testing and Measuring Consumer Acceptance
5. Nutritional Quality of Fruits and Vegetables
6. Value Chain Management and Postharvest Handling
7. Consumer Expenditure on Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Purchase
8. Postharvest Regulation and Quality Standards on Fresh Produce
9. Fresh-cut Product Quality: Implications for a Systems Approach
10. Postharvest Handling and Quality Maintenance of Tropical Fruits
11. Microbial Quality and Safety of Fresh Produce
12. Sorting for Defects
13. Non-destructive Evaluation: Detection of External and Internal Attributes Frequently Associated with Quality and Damage
14. Measuring Quality and Maturity
15. Modeling Quality Attributes and Quality Related Product Properties
16. The Supply Value Chain of Fresh Produce from Field to Home: Refrigeration and Other Supporting Technologies
17. Traceability in Postharvest Systems
18. Fruits and Vegetables in International Trade: Forensic Aspects of Cargo Claims
19. Innovative and Integrated Approaches to Investigate Postharvest Stress Physiology and the Biological Basis of Fruit Quality During Storage
20. Challenges in Postharvest Handling