TY - JOUR
T1 - Traceability and assurance protocols in the global food system
AU - Poghosyan, Arsen
AU - Gonzalez-Diaz, Francisco
AU - Bolotova, Yuliya
AU - Montealegre, Fernando
AU - Goda, Hemanshu
AU - Heboyan, Vahe
AU - Senesi, Sebastian
AU - Marino, Matheus
AU - Mena, Santiago Andrade
AU - Ahmedov, Zafarbek
AU - Golub, Alla
AU - Levchuk, Svitlana
AU - Mainville, Denise
AU - Martinez, Lourdes
AU - Panteleeva, Olga
AU - Ponomarenko, Inna
AU - Jones, Eluned
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - In the 21st century, the food supply chain has become a complex, interconnected system with strategies that are aimed at creating improved products to satisfy consumers' demand for safer foods. To stay competitive and ensure consumer confidence, agribusiness firms develop and implement strategies that take into account not only traditional economic factors driving the food demand, but also issues such as food safety and quality. Traceability and assurance protocols help agribusiness companies improve and refine their production processes, thus providing better control over, and transparency of, food quality and safety throughout the food supply chain. This paper reports on the empirical results of focus interviews conducted during the 2004 IAMA conference to determine the current implemented levels of traceability and assurance protocols and considers some of the issues regarding the benefits, costs and constraints of implementing those protocols.
AB - In the 21st century, the food supply chain has become a complex, interconnected system with strategies that are aimed at creating improved products to satisfy consumers' demand for safer foods. To stay competitive and ensure consumer confidence, agribusiness firms develop and implement strategies that take into account not only traditional economic factors driving the food demand, but also issues such as food safety and quality. Traceability and assurance protocols help agribusiness companies improve and refine their production processes, thus providing better control over, and transparency of, food quality and safety throughout the food supply chain. This paper reports on the empirical results of focus interviews conducted during the 2004 IAMA conference to determine the current implemented levels of traceability and assurance protocols and considers some of the issues regarding the benefits, costs and constraints of implementing those protocols.
KW - Assurance
KW - Food
KW - Quality
KW - Safety
KW - Traceability
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:27544483567
SN - 1559-2448
VL - 7
SP - 118
EP - 126
JO - International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
JF - International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
IS - 3
ER -
