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Keeping produce safe--from the farm to the fork


As health- and quality-conscious consumers increasingly seek out fresh fruit and vegetables, participants in the food supply chain--growers, shippers, processors, and retailers--must be ever more effective in safeguarding their products and protecting consumers. Microbial Hazard Identification in Fresh Fruits and Vegetables is a comprehensive guide for the fresh fruit and vegetable industry to understanding and controlling the hazards that can affect their products on every leg of the journey from farm to fork.

From production, harvesting, packing, and distribution to retail and consumer handling, the text highlights food safety hazards and potential areas of microbial contamination, examines food-borne pathogens and their association with produce-related outbreaks over the years, and points out areas for further research to better understand the survival of pathogens on fresh produce throughout the food chain.

Particularly valuable to the industry are discussions of:
* Food worker hygiene, including control measures and employee training requirements
* Major areas of known contamination and mitigation measures
* Implementation of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)
* Contamination and mishandling during storage and transportation, and in retail display cases
* Recommendations for consumer behavior with fresh produce and food handling prior to consumption in the home
* A case study of the economic impact of the 2003 green onion food-borne outbreak

A comprehensive look at both microbial hazards and available measures for their prevention, this book is an essential reference for the fresh fruit and vegetable industry as well as a practical text for the education and training of scientists, professionals, and staff involved in managing food safety. ... Read more

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The second edition of this very well-received book, which in its first edition was entitled Postharvest Technology of Fruits and Vegetables, has been welcomed by the community of postharvest physiologists and technologists who found the first edition of such great use. The book covers, in comprehensive detail, postharvest physiology as it applies to postharvest quality, technology relating to maturity determination, harvesting, packaging, postharvest treatments, controlled atmosphere storage, ripening and transportation on a very wide international range of fruits and vegetables.

The new edition of this definitive work, which contains many full colour photographs, provides key practical and commercially-oriented information of great use in helping to ensure that fruit and vegetables reach the retailer in optimum condition, with the minimum of loss and spoilage.

Fruits and vegetables, 2nd edition is essential reading forfruit and vegetable technologists, food scientists and food technologists, agricultural scientists, commercial growers, shippers and warehousing operatives and personnel within packaging companies. Researchers and upper level students in food science, food technology, plant and agricultural sciences will find a great deal of use within this landmark book. All libraries in research establishments and universities where these subjects are studied and taught should have copies readily available for users.

A. K. Thompson was formerly Professor and head of Postharvest Technology, Silsoe College, UK. ... Read more

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A superbly organized, fact-filled resource
Now in an expanded and updated second edition, Fruit And Vegetables: Harvesting, Handling And Storage by academician and agriculture expert A. K. Thompson is an extensively detailed, professional quality reference concerning the harvest, care, and storage needs of a vast variety of fruits and vegetables. Each different edible item has its own entry with meticulously presented information, including tables concerning how storage atmosphere or time affects acidity, taste, or firmness/texture qualities for vegetables such as peas, precise recommendations in degrees celsius for the optimum refrigeration temperature of many fruits and vegetables, safety concerns, and more. A superbly organized, fact-filled resource, Fruit And Vegetables is an impressive text for graduate studies Agricultural Science reading lists and as a thoroughly "user friendly", single volume, professional quality, occupational resource. ... Read more

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Recent nationwide recalls of spinach due to E. coli contamination and peanut butter due to Salmonella, make the emerging development of "active" and "intelligent" packaging crucial for consumer safety and quality assurance. Now that it is possible to make packaging that can detect and inform consumers of contamination, as well as prevent or reduce the growth of human foodborne pathogens, the food packaging and safety industry needs a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-science and future directions of this widely important field.

Drawing on the research of a diverse group of scientists and pioneers in the field, Intelligent and Active Packaging for Fruits and Vegetables explores the new technology and applications used to bring fresh, safe, nutritious produce to the consumer. It explains Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) and its use in packaging fruits and vegetables, as well as, fish and meat. It includes variations and advances on MAP such as high vapor-permeable films, and demonstrates modeling techniques to assist in the prediction and selection of packaging type. The book contains a chapter on the trends, opportunities, and challenges of RFID temperature monitoring in food packaging. It also considers the interaction between container and food product, as well as the use of non-toxic insect repellent plastics. There is a chapter on the regulatory implications of the use of nanotechnology in food packaging. Finally, the book discusses consumer perception, the specific needs of developing countries, and current implementation in Europe.

Explaining the very latest in packaging technology and opening areas for future research, Intelligent and Active Packaging for Fruits and Vegetables provides an excellent knowledge base from which to revolutionize the delivery of safe and nutritious food. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Frozen Food Digest, published by Frozen Food Digest, Inc. on October 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1469 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Foodservice.(products and services of the foodservice industry)(Statistical Data Included)
Publication: Frozen Food Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1999
Publisher: Frozen Food Digest, Inc.
Volume: 15Issue: 1Page: 42

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This digital document is an article from Frozen Food Digest, published by Frozen Food Digest, Inc. on April 1, 1996. The length of the article is 710 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Rochelle Cold Storage facility, the distribution center of the Wiscold/ TLC Group, underwent another expansion that is set for completion in Apr. 1996. The expansion project, the company's fourth in only 10 years, was undertaken to improve client service and firm up its leading position as a distribution center in the Midwest. Rochelle Cold Storage has a large cold storage facilities in the area that handles multi-temperature storage for several refrigerated products. With its premium location and facilities and commendable customer service, the firm maintains its market superiority.

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Title: Rochelle Cold Storage expands, offers integrated distribution services.
Publication: Frozen Food Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 1996
Publisher: Frozen Food Digest, Inc.
Volume: v11Issue: n4Page: p76(1)

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This digital document is an article from Quick Frozen Foods International, published by E.W. Williams Publications, Inc. on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1645 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: QUICK FROZEN FOODS international PRODUCT & SERVICES INFORMATION GUIDE.
Publication: Quick Frozen Foods International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2001
Publisher: E.W. Williams Publications, Inc.
Volume: 42Issue: 3Page: 18

Article Type: Directory

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This digital document is an article from Food Trade Review, published by Food Trade Press Ltd. on December 1, 1991. The length of the article is 335 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: New distribution method for frozen products is fast and 'green.' (Charterail, a new door-to-door distribution service)
Publication: Food Trade Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 1991
Publisher: Food Trade Press Ltd.
Volume: v61Issue: n12Page: p716(2)

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This digital document is an article from Food Trade Review, published by Food Trade Press Ltd. on February 1, 2010. The length of the article is 451 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: IDF template and awards.(Informalia)(International Dehydrated Foods Inc.'s online services )
Author: Unavailable
Publication: Food Trade Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2010
Publisher: Food Trade Press Ltd.
Volume: 80Page: 84(1)

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This digital document is an article from New Hampshire Business Review, published by Business Publications, Inc. on May 21, 2010. The length of the article is 895 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Minding her peas and carrots wins investors; founder of organic frozen-foods company worked with a blend of services for small businesses to get off the ground.(Peas of Mind LLC)(Occupation overview)
Author: Susan Smith Hendrickson
Publication: New Hampshire Business Review (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 21, 2010
Publisher: Business Publications, Inc.
Volume: 32Issue: 10Page: S4(1)

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A Produce Reference Guide to Fruits and Vegetables from Around the World: Nature?s Harvest answers the many questions consumers have about various fruits and vegetables. Providing basic, clear, and understandable information for each produce item, this reference guide gives you a synopsis of the fruit or vegetable, a short history of the item, the common and uncommon name, what it looks and tastes like, how it is used, and the time of year it is available. Information on nutrition, serving sizes, yields, and optimal storage conditions is also provided. From potatoes to shepherd?s purse and from grapes to the Clementine tangor, A Produce Reference Guide to Fruits and Vegetables from Around the World covers both the familiar and the exotic. Other than the obvious fruits and vegetables (such as 12 varieties of cherries and 10 different kinds of squash) you?ll also read about herbs, mushrooms, sprouts, and nuts.

A Produce Reference Guide to Fruits and Vegetables from Around the World is packed with useful information. From practical advice to interesting trivia, some of the things you?ll learn include:

• You should not eat any green parts of potatoes--it will make you sick.
• How to classify a peach--clingstone vs. freestone and white vs. yellow.
• The Texas 1015 Supersweet onion is named after its recommended planting date, October 15.
• Kiwis (originally from China, not Australia) contain an enzyme that tenderizes meat.
• Women in China once made a dye from the skin of eggplants to stain their teeth black.
• The famous mutiny by Captain Bligh?s crew was caused by breadfruit.
• Gourds may have spread between continents by floating in the ocean, as they can float in sea water for 220 days without losing seed viability.
• The two nuts mentioned in the Bible--almonds and pistachios.
  
  As new methods in farming, storing, and shipping are allowing exotic fruits and vegetables unheard of a few years ago to become available, consumers are coming up with more and more questions that many professionals are unable to answer. A Produce Reference Guide to Fruits and Vegetables from Around the World is the tool you can use to find answers. The guide is especially useful for specialty produce outlets and wholesalers, importers/exporters of fruits and vegetables, produce brokers and buyers, supermarket and independent food store produce departments, military commissaries, and the general public.

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Useful but spotty
This manual provides some useful information on a lot of fruits and vegetables found in supermarkets, sometimes facts that are otherwise hard to find.Unfortunately, its coverage is very spotty - take apples for example, it has a fair general discussion, then goes into some detail on several specific varieties, but totally ignores a much larger number that people are already less likely to know about because they are newer in markets.It is also rather overpriced for what you get, this book would be a better deal as a $15 Dover paperback.

A slightly less expensive and generally better reference is Food Plants of the World: An Illustrated Guide published by Timber Press http://www.amazon.com/Food-Plants-World-Illustrated-Guide/dp/0881927430/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271384371&sr=8-1 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Quick Frozen Foods International, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1703 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: USCS suburban Miami warehouse offers 'Medley' of services to clients: strategically situated in a booming South Florida market, the new Medley coldstore is also well positioned for growing import-export business between the US and Latin America.
Publication: Quick Frozen Foods International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 47Issue: 1Page: S12(4)

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This digital document is an article from Frozen Food Digest, published by Frozen Food Digest, Inc. on February 1, 1996. The length of the article is 2069 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The American Frozen Foods Institute (AFFI) is calling on the Depts. of Health and Human Services and Agriculture to include frozen fruits and vegetables in their new 'Dietary Guidelines for Americans.' The AFFI says that the new guidelines overlook the nutritional benefits that can be gained from frozen foods by promoting only the consumption of raw fruits and vegetables. The association is also seeking congressional support for its proposal to include frozen food in the guidelines.

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Title: AFFI lambasts new dietary guidelines, urges HHS, USDA to reissue to include frozens. (American Frozen Food Institute; Department of Health and Human Services; Department of Agriculture)
Publication: Frozen Food Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 1996
Publisher: Frozen Food Digest, Inc.
Volume: v11Issue: n3Page: p20(1)

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This digital document is an article from Quick Frozen Foods International, published by E.W. Williams Publications, Inc. on January 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1910 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Cold storage businesses in the Benelux countries have evolved into logistics providers, offering value-added services beyond the traditional storing and picking. Vriesvemen Kloosterboer of the Netherlands now offers bar-coding, financing, forwarding and complete distribution. Van Bon Cold Stores provides stevedoring, packing, forwarding and customs clearance assistance. Other additional services include fiscal agency services such those offered by Jac. Meisner BV.

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Title: Logistics and related services driving evolving Benelux cold storage business.(Warehousing World)
Publication: Quick Frozen Foods International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 1996
Publisher: E.W. Williams Publications, Inc.
Volume: v37Issue: n3Page: p192(4)

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This digital document is an article from Quick Frozen Foods International, published by E.W. Williams Publications, Inc. on April 1, 1999. The length of the article is 831 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: PRW Industry and Trade Associations Demonstrate Commitment to Service.
Author: Roy L. Johnson
Publication: Quick Frozen Foods International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 1999
Publisher: E.W. Williams Publications, Inc.
Volume: 40Issue: 4Page: 112(1)

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You need 5 to 9 daily servings of fruits and vegetables. Get tips on new ways to serve them, the importance of variety, and how to make eating fruits and vegetables fun and convenient. ... Read more

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In “How To Purify Your Food With Organic Gardening”, you’ll learn nearly everything you need to know to garden without the use of chemicals or other harmful substances!

Organic gardening isn’t a new age science. What it can be, though, is a new way of looking at the way you feed yourself and your loved ones!

Here’s a little of what you’ll learn inside of “How To Purify Your Food With Organic Gardening”:

- The satisfaction of growing your own food

- The knowledge that you are eating all-natural foods with no health risks attached

- The confidence that you are doing everything you can do to protect the environment

- The peace that comes with providing your family with pure foods that cannot harm them

- Preparing the soil for planting

- Planning out the perfect garden

- Making your own all-natural pesticides and fertilizers

- How to make your own compost

- Growing plants from seeds

- Taking care of your garden

- And more!

Author Randall Magwood is an organic gardening expert, and has taught many people around the world how to create organic gardens.
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This digital document is an article from Frozen Food Digest, published by Frozen Food Digest, Inc. on April 1, 1996. The length of the article is 880 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: SCS Refrigerated Services starts implementing tactical and strategic plans as it welcomes the present and future challenges of the frozen food sector.A subsidiary of the Schnitzer Group, SCS makes attempts to maintain its lead in the Pacific Northwest through efficient handling of a wide variety of commodities that need refrigeration. The company was formerly known as SCS Industries until it changed its name to better highlight the extent of the services it offers. SCS deals with import/export storage and handling and the primary warehousing of manufacturers' finished goods.

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Title: SCS Refrigerated Services ready for the 21st century.(Company Profile)
Publication: Frozen Food Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 1996
Publisher: Frozen Food Digest, Inc.
Volume: v11Issue: n4Page: p8(2)

Article Type: Company Profile

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This digital document is an article from Quick Frozen Foods International, published by E.W. Williams Publications, Inc. on January 1, 2000. The length of the article is 338 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Full Service is Key to Success In Highly Fragmented Market.(Brief Article)
Publication: Quick Frozen Foods International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2000
Publisher: E.W. Williams Publications, Inc.
Volume: 41Issue: 3Page: 1S44

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This digital document is an article from Quick Frozen Foods International, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2006. The length of the article is 3083 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Business up at North American PRWs, with more offering added services: turnover and inventories both up, with new construction limited mostly to the coldest (-29[degrees]C) warehouses. RFID technology making rapid gains, and websites are almost universal.(QFFI--IARW Annual Survey)(Industry overview)
Author: J.J. Pierce
Publication: Quick Frozen Foods International (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 47Issue: 4Page: 100(5)

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