The European food system serves 480 million people each day with food and drink (Raspor, McKenna & de Vries, 2007). It is of intense current research interest to understand how food purchase choice will impact on resource use, climate change and public health (Deloitte, 2007). It is clear that the current food needs of consumers in developed nations are becoming more complex with consideration ...

Antimicrobial-resistance in Gram-positive bacteria is reported with increasing frequency in strains isolated from food animals. Their isolation from commercial poultry carcasses and meat products constitute a potential risk that resistant strains or resistance genes might spread to humans via the food chain. As bacterial inactivation by thermal process is a critical control point in the safe pr...

The new food economy is bigger, broader, faster, and more demanding. It is a kaleidoscope of foods, firms, consumers, countries, contracts, and agreements that provide us with a dizzying vision of moving targets. We have witnessed the food and agricultural industry move from a set of independent producers and marketing firms to a set of integrated and highly managed supply chains. We have witne...