Market perceptions of food and feed safety

2002 ◽  
Vol 2002 ◽  
pp. 254-255
Author(s):  
P. C. Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Public Concern ◽  
Feed Processing ◽  
Safety Assurance ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Market Perceptions ◽  
Feed Safety ◽  
Fundamental Shift

The last decade has witnessed a dramatic increase in the introduction of risk management and safety assurance throughout the UK’s food and feed processing and manufacturing industries. This has resulted in part from changes in legislation, but more significantly it has reflected a fundamental shift in the market environment in which the food-chain industries operate. Risk management was established as a key requirement when the emergence of food safety problems in the 1980s became a matter of public concern. Retailers responded by driving the safety assurance ‘down’ the food-supply chain, and politicians by moving food-chain regulation up their list of legislative priorities.

Development of a novel scoring system for identifying emerging chemical risks in the food chain

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 340-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Oltmanns ◽  
O. Licht ◽  
A. Bitsch ◽  
M.-L. Bohlen ◽  
S. E. Escher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Scoring System ◽  
European Food Safety Authority ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Feed Safety ◽  
Food And Feed Safety

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is responsible for risk assessment of all aspects of food and feed safety, including the establishment of procedures aimed at the identification of emerging risks to food safety.

scholarly journals Ten Years of Lateral Flow Immunoassay Technique Applications: Trends, Challenges and Future Perspectives

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (15) ◽  
pp. 5185
Author(s):  
Fabio Di Nardo ◽  
Matteo Chiarello ◽  
Simone Cavalera ◽  
Claudio Baggiani ◽  
Laura Anfossi
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Control ◽  
Improve Patient Care ◽  
Turnaround Time ◽  
Lateral Flow ◽  
Lateral Flow Immunoassay ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Immunoassay Technique ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Application Fields ◽  
Feed Safety

The Lateral Flow Immunoassay (LFIA) is by far one of the most successful analytical platforms to perform the on-site detection of target substances. LFIA can be considered as a sort of lab-in-a-hand and, together with other point-of-need tests, has represented a paradigm shift from sample-to-lab to lab-to-sample aiming to improve decision making and turnaround time. The features of LFIAs made them a very attractive tool in clinical diagnostic where they can improve patient care by enabling more prompt diagnosis and treatment decisions. The rapidity, simplicity, relative cost-effectiveness, and the possibility to be used by nonskilled personnel contributed to the wide acceptance of LFIAs. As a consequence, from the detection of molecules, organisms, and (bio)markers for clinical purposes, the LFIA application has been rapidly extended to other fields, including food and feed safety, veterinary medicine, environmental control, and many others. This review aims to provide readers with a 10-years overview of applications, outlining the trends for the main application fields and the relative compounded annual growth rates. Moreover, future perspectives and challenges are discussed.

scholarly journals Occurrence, Impact on Agriculture, Human Health, and Management Strategies of Zearalenone in Food and Feed: A Review

Toxins ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Dipendra Kumar Mahato ◽  
Sheetal Devi ◽  
Shikha Pandhi ◽  
Bharti Sharma ◽  
Kamlesh Kumar Maurya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Structural Similarity ◽  
Fungal Metabolites ◽  
Natural Estrogens ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Feed Safety ◽  
And Control ◽  
Different Sources

Mycotoxins represent an assorted range of secondary fungal metabolites that extensively occur in numerous food and feed ingredients at any stage during pre- and post-harvest conditions. Zearalenone (ZEN), a mycotoxin categorized as a xenoestrogen poses structural similarity with natural estrogens that enables its binding to the estrogen receptors leading to hormonal misbalance and numerous reproductive diseases. ZEN is mainly found in crops belonging to temperate regions, primarily in maize and other cereal crops that form an important part of various food and feed. Because of the significant adverse effects of ZEN on both human and animal, there is an alarming need for effective detection, mitigation, and management strategies to assure food and feed safety and security. The present review tends to provide an updated overview of the different sources, occurrence and biosynthetic mechanisms of ZEN in various food and feed. It also provides insight to its harmful effects on human health and agriculture along with its effective detection, management, and control strategies.

scholarly journals Food and feed safety: Cases and approaches to identify the responsible toxins and toxicants

Food Control ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjen Gerssen ◽  
Toine H.F. Bovee ◽  
Leendert A. van Ginkel ◽  
Marlou L.P.S. van Iersel ◽  
Ron L.A.P. Hoogenboom
Keyword(s):  
Food And Feed ◽  
Safety Cases ◽  
Feed Safety ◽  
Food And Feed Safety

Strategic action grids: a study on supply chain risk management in manufacturing industries in India

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (8) ◽  
pp. 3045-3061 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Viswanath Shenoi ◽  
T.N. Srikantha Dath ◽  
C. Rajendran ◽  
P. Shahabudeen
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Supply Chain Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain Risk ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Robust Supply Chain

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide strategic recommendations to supply chain managers of Indian manufacturing industries for a robust supply chain related to risk management by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers in manufacturing industries to ensure a robust supply chain risk management (SCRM). Design/methodology/approach Importance-performance analysis (IPA) is utilized to identify and provide strategic recommendations to manufacturing industries for improving their supply chain performance by attaching due importance to risk constructs and appropriately choosing mitigation strategies. Findings The investigation using the strategic action grids reveals that most of the means of risks are near the point of intersection of the grand means of the risk constructs and their impact on the supply chain, indicating that all the risks have the equal likelihood of occurrence. The mean importance of risk monitoring, risk avoidance (RA) and risk sharing surpass the mean performance for both OEMs and suppliers. Research limitations/implications The study is executed with following limitations: the study assumes that the manufacturing industries across different sectors perceive similar risk. The sectors considered are automotive, heavy engineering, general engineering and home appliances. The Southern States of India are considered because of the dominant presence of many industries, especially automotive industries. However, it should be noted that these States form the manufacturing hubs where the lead organizations are functioning along with their major suppliers. Practical implications By understanding the importance of SCRM dimensions and utilization of these dimensions, firms can mitigate the impact of risk on the supply chain. The detailed study of SCRM strategies highlights the importance attached to risk factors, mitigation strategies, and top management commitment. By the implementation of SCRM strategies, supply chain managers can improve the firm’s performance. Originality/value The study involves empirically validated data on SCRM dimensions. The IPA is performed on the SCRM dimensions to investigate the importance attached to the factors of the dimensions and their performance.

Phylogenetic Diversity and Mycotoxin Potential of Emergent Phytopathogens within the Fusarium tricinctum Species Complex

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imane Laraba ◽  
Mark Busman ◽  
David M. Geiser ◽  
Kerry O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Species Complex ◽  
Phylogenetic Diversity ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
Culture Collections ◽  
Strain Collection ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Feed Safety ◽  
Large Survey ◽  
Fusarium Tricinctum

Recent studies on multiple continents indicate members of the Fusarium tricinctum species complex (FTSC) are emerging as prevalent pathogens of small-grain cereals, pulses, and other economically important crops. These understudied fusaria produce structurally diverse mycotoxins, among which enniatins (ENNs) and moniliformin (MON) are the most frequent and of greatest concern to food and feed safety. Herein a large survey of fusaria in the Fusarium Research Center and Agricultural Research Service culture collections was undertaken to assess species diversity and mycotoxin potential within the FTSC. A 151-strain collection originating from diverse hosts and substrates from different agroclimatic regions throughout the world was selected from 460 FTSC strains to represent the breadth of FTSC phylogenetic diversity. Evolutionary relationships inferred from a 5-locus dataset, using maximum likelihood and parsimony, resolved the 151 strains as 24 phylogenetically distinct species, including nine that are new to science. Of the five genes analyzed, nearly full-length phosphate permease sequences contained the most phylogenetically informative characters, establishing its suitability for species-level phylogenetics within the FTSC. Fifteen of the species produced ENNs, MON, the sphingosine analog 2-amino-14,16- dimethyloctadecan-3-ol (AOD), and the toxic pigment aurofusarin (AUR) on a cracked corn kernel substrate. Interestingly, the five earliest diverging species in the FTSC phylogeny (i.e., F. iranicum, F. flocciferum, F. torulosum, Fusarium spp. FTSC 8 and 24) failed to produce AOD and MON, but synthesized ENNs and/or AUR. Moreover, our reassessment of nine published phylogenetic studies on the FTSC identified 11 additional novel taxa, suggesting this complex comprises at least 36 species.

Process-Based Safety Risk Management/Safety Assurance

2017 ◽  
pp. 181-202
Author(s):  
Alan J. Stolzer ◽  
Carl D. Halford ◽  
John J. Goglia
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Safety Risk ◽  
Safety Assurance

Reference on Mycotoxins Occurrence, Prevalence, and Risk Assessment in Food Systems

2019 ◽  
pp. 294-343
Author(s):  
Griffiths Atungulu ◽  
Zeinab Mohammadi-Shad
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Filamentous Fungi ◽  
Human Exposure ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Animal Products ◽  
Food And Feed ◽  
Feed Safety ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Food And Feed Safety

Mycotoxins are a group of naturally occurring toxins that are produced by different filamentous fungi genera such as Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, etc. The word mycotoxin literally is derived from Greek word “myke” meaning fungus and “toxicum” meaning toxin. These contaminants can develop on different food and feed commodities during different stages including pre-harvest, harvest, and storage. Mycotoxins are of concern because their outbreak result in animal and human diseases and economic losses. It has been estimated that global post-harvest losses are approximately at 50%. Human exposure to mycotoxins is typically through consumption of contaminated agricultural products or indirectly by consumption of animal products containing mycotoxins or their metabolites. The chapter provides the latest information on mycotoxin issues and challenges related to food and feed safety.

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