Quality Management in Food Chains

Comprises material on recent studies on quality management in agri-food chains. Due to several food crisis's (e.g. BSE, Foot-and-Mouth disease) and growing demands for food quality and safety, quality management systems and quality assurance schemes have been widely adopted in different countries in recent years. The information in this book give a comprehensive review of quality management concepts in food chains and highlight future research directions from a global perspective.