Postharvest handling: a systems approach

Postharvest Handling, Third Edition takes a global perspective in offering a system of measuring, monitoring, and managing produce processing to improve food quality, minimize food waste, reduce risks and uncertainties, and maximize time and resources. This unique resource provides an overview of the postharvest system and its role in the food value chain, and offers essential tools to monitor …

The produce contamination problem: causes and solutions

Understanding the causes and contributing factors leading to outbreaks of food-borne illness associated with contamination of fresh produce is a worldwide challenge for everyone from the growers of fresh-cut produce through the entire production and delivery process. The premise of The Produce Contamination Problem is that when human pathogen contamination of fresh produce occurs, it is extreme…

Fruit and vegetable processing: improving quality

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0849315417

Collation

xvi, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series Title

Woodhead Publishing in food science and technology

Call Number

[ITP-LIB-71]

Fruit and vegetables: harvesting, handling, and storage

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 …