The liberalization of the worldwide business and growing consumer demands, request the qualityoriented food production. Access to great quality food has been man's venture from the earlier days. A standout amongst the most difficult errands in today's sustenance industry is controlling the item‟s quality all through the food supply chain. The objective of this study is to optimize an inventory ...

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Satisfaction of inpatients with served food within a hospital care system still constitutes one of the main attempts to modernize food services. The impact of type of menu, food category, hospital centre and timetable on the meals wastage produced in different Spanish healthcare settings, was evaluated. METHODS Meal wastage was measured through a semiquantitative 5-point...

The large amount of waste produced by the food industries causes serious environmental problems and also results in economic losses if not utilized effectively. Different research reports have revealed that food industry by-products can be good sources of potentially valuable bioactive compounds. As such, the mango juice industry uses only the edible portions of the mangoes, and a considerable ...

The current global economic crisis implies new problems of knowledge and management of food and nutrition safety and security with respect to all their components.1 It is not by chance that the 2013 World Food Day theme, Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition, insisted that this fundamental aspect of daily life profoundly influences − as a risk or a protective factor − not onl...

background: the first step of solid waste management is identification of its composition and the amount of solid waste production per capita. the aim of this research was to estimate the quantity of solid waste production at mazandaran university of medical sciences and the possibility of recycling. methods: this study was a cross-sectional study. the quantity of solid waste production was mea...

This paper identifies and evaluates interventions for addressing the structural conditions in food systems that contribute to waste. Within waste literature, an emerging strand of research is focusing on how has causes are embedded within fundamental characteristics supply chains. draws upon empirical examining Australian horticulture industry as a context from which advance understandings dism...

Food processing industry including fruit and vegetable processing is the second largest generator of wastes into the environment only after the household sewage. The generation of biodegradable waste increased linearly with the growth and development of food processing industry. A huge amount of waste in the form of liquid and solid is produced in the fruit and vegetable processing industries i...

background: contamination of water by toxic chemicals has become commonly recognized as an environmental concern. based on our clinical observation in mashhad, northeastern iran, many people might be at risk of exposure to high concentrations of toxic heavy metals in water. because wastewater effluents as well as water wells have been commonly used for irrigation over the past decades, there ha...