In European Union, food safety and food quality has become top priority for consumers, businesses and government. Recurring food incidents exhibits that foods quality is more difficult to assure than initially thought.
A supply chain therefore needs to safeguard food safety across all supplier/ customer relationship from farm to fork.
The quality of a finished food product may be compromised at any stage, so that it is necessary to integrate quality management throughout supply chains.
A highly differentiate food market, with consumers exhibiting diverse preferences also opportunities for firms to gain a competitive advantage through verifying the presence of a desirable quality attribute.
Food quality standards and the ability to trace food within supply chain have become increasingly important from both the producer and consumer sides.
A food chain can affect food quality in many ways. For example, pathogens can be introduce and or amplified at many stages along the chain. Transportation many cause stress in animals, creasing shedding of body parts and the spread of pathogens.
Food quality in supply chain
