Food Quality Management - A Techno-Managerial Approach (Paperback)

This work focuses on consumer-driven quality management in food production systems using a product-based approach. It integrates organizational and technological aspects of food product quality into one techno-managerial concept and it presents and integrated view of how quality management is to be situated in a chain-orientated approach. Topics covered include: consumer perception of product quality, organization and quality management; and the use of quality tools including quality design, control and improvement from both a technological and management perspective. Moreover, legislative aspects of product quality and assurance, quality costs, auditing and a description of the various quality assurance systems in use from GMP to Total Quality Management are included. For both researchers and professionals in the agricultural food industry, as well as students active in various areas of food production systems, this publication provides a concept for a chain-oriented approach on developments in the field.