Food quality is a holistic concept that includes all the factors that will influence consumers’ acceptability of any product including positive attributes such as nutritional value, cultural value, color, taste, flavor, texture as well as negative attributes such as spoilage, contamination, adulteration, food safety hazards.
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Food Safety Audits: Ensuring Quality and Safe Food to Our Plate and Palate
Ruby Siwach (College of Dairy Science and Technology, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, India)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7415-7.ch001
Abstract
Food safety has gained global attention due to rising issues of food-borne illnesses, adulteration, and increased consumer awareness about food safety worldwide. It is a challenge for the governments and the food industry itself to maintain food safety throughout the food and supply chain. There are several systems and processes adopted by various countries to ensure food safety, and the food safety audits are one of the indispensable tools to achieve the goals of food quality and safety. Rising trends of consuming processed foods, eating out in restaurants and cafes, home deliveries of food from outside worldwide have made the auditing process very essential to ensure that the food products are being manufactured, stored, and sold in compliance with national and international standards. This chapter aims at providing an overview of the food audit processes, scope, importance, challenges, and future trends.