Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gunasekaran, Angappa
• Attaran, Mohsen

Titel

Food Industry

Ist Teil von

• Applications of Blockchain Technology in Business, 2019, p.63-65

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Urbanization and consumer habits of the millennial generation have increased the number of people buying and eating food prepared in public places. Globalization has triggered growing consumer demand for a wider variety of foods, resulting in an increasingly complex and longer global food supply chain. The industrialization of agriculture and animal production to meet increasing demand for food creates challenges for food safety. Climate change resulting in temperature changes modify food safety risks associated with food production, storage, and distribution. More and more people are becoming increasingly concerned as to the source of their food. In October 2006, multiple states in the U.S. suffered a major E-Coli outbreak where nearly 200 people were affected and three of whom died (World Health Organization 2017). Supply chains in the food industry are highly complex and can cross multiple national borders. Tracing food back to its origin can be a slow process, during which entire industries may shut down. Good collaboration between governments, producers, and consumers helps ensure food safety.