Postharvest handling : a systems approach.: a systems approach. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: Florkowski, Wojciech J
• Contents: Systems Approach to Postharvest Handling; Business Models of Fresh Produce in the United States; Challenges in Handling Fresh Fruits and Vegetables; Preharvest Physiological and Cultural Effects on Postharvest Quality; Measuring Quality and Maturity; Microbial Quality; Testing and Measuring Consumer Acceptance; Modeling Quality Characteristics; Visual Inspection and Sorting: Finding Poor Quality Before the Consumer Does; Latent Damage: A Systems Perspective; Nondestructive Evaluation: Detection of External and Internal Attributes Frequently Associated with Quality or Damage; Stress Physiology: A Cellular Approach to Quality; Logistics of Fresh Produce: Implications for Quality; Postharvest Handling Under Extreme Weather Conditions; Postharvest Handling of Locally Grown Produce; Refrigeration of Fresh Produce From Field to Home: Logistics and Refrigeration and the Refrigerator; Challenges in Quality of Organic Produce; The Shrinking System: Quality Specificity of Fresh Cut Vegetables and Fruit; Tropical Fresh Fruit: Quality Challenge; Food Safety: Food Safety and Product Integrity in Critical Points Within the Production and Distribution System; Quality Management: An Industrial Approach ot Produce Handling; Produce Marketing: New Techniques At the Supermarket; Consumer Eating Habits and Fresh Produce Quality; Genetic Modification Improvements in Fresh Produce Quality: Implications for Systems Approach; Quality of Fresh Produce and Public Health; Regulation of Fresh Produce Postharvest HAndling; Interdisciplinary Solutions to Challenges in Postharvest Handling
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (640 pages)
• Subjects: 631.56; Fruit -- Handling; Fruit -- Postharvest technology; Vegetables -- Handling; Vegetables -- Postharvest technology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080920788; 0080920780
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