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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779565303321

Autore

Zhou Jiehong

Titolo

Food safety management in China : a perspective from food quality control system / / Jiehong Zhou, Shaosheng Jin, Zhejiang University, China

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : World Scientific Pub. Co., 2013

New Jersey : , : World Scientific, , [2013]

�2013

ISBN

1-299-46280-4

981-4447-76-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations (some color), map

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

353.997

363.192014

Soggetti

Food - China - Safety measures

Food - Quality - China

Food contamination - China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Overview of Food Safety Management in China; 1.1 Changes in the Focus of Food Safety in China; 1.2 China's Food Safety: Understanding Based on the Perspective of Non-Traditional Security; 1.3 China's Food Safety Supervision: Progress and Achievements; 1.3.1 Construction of Food Safety Law System; 1.3.2 Constant Improvement of the Food Safety Standard System; 1.3.3 Capacity Enhancement of Food Safety Monitoring and Early Warning; 1.3.4 Steady Advancement of the Project of High Quality Safety Brand Building: Three Products, One Indication

1.4 China's Food Safety Supervision: Problem Analysis1.4.1 China's Food Supply Chain; 1.4.1.1 Food Supply Chain and Food Safety; 1.4.1.2 Influencing Factors of Food Safety Issues at Each Stage of the Food Supply Chain and Cause Analysis; Production Stage; Processing Stage; Storage and Transportation Stage; Wholesale Sales Stage; Consumption Stage; 1.4.2 Traceability of China's Food Quality Safety; 1.4.3 China's Food Quality Safety Supervision; 1.4.3.1 China's Food Safety Laws and



Regulations System; 1.4.3.2 China's Food Safety Supervision Mode and Supervision Body

1.4.3.3 China's Unsafe Food Recall System1.4.4 The Application of New Technology and Food Safety: Take Transgenic Technology as an Example; 1.5 Conclusions; References; Chapter 2 Safety of Vegetables and the Use of Pesticides by Farmers in China; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Method; 2.3 Results and Discussions; 2.3.1 DemographicAnalysis; 2.3.1.1 Age; 2.3.1.2 Education Level; 2.3.1.3 Planting Area; 2.3.1.4 Household Size; 2.3.1.5 Professional Years of Farming; 2.3.1.6 Cooperative Membership; 2.3.1.7 Training Received; 2.3.2 Pesticides Used; 2.3.3 Perceptions of Vegetable Safety Issues

2.3.4 Identification of Farmers at Risk of Using Highly Toxic Pesticides2.4 Conclusions and Implications; References; Chapter 3 Adoption of Food Safety and Quality Standards by China's Agricultural Cooperatives; 3 .I Introduction; 3.2 Methodology; 3.3 Data Source and Variable Description; 3.4 Results and Discussions; 3.5 Policy Implications and Conclusions; References; Chapter 4 Implementation of Food Safety and Quality Standards: A Case Study of the Vegetable Processing Industry in Zhejiang, China; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Food Safety and Quality System in China; 4.3 Theoretical Framework

4.4 The Survey and the Data4.5 Empirical Analysis; The size of the firm; Main market served; Expected premium; Brand; E-Commerce; Training frequency; Government impacts; 4.6 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations; References; Chapter 5 Adoption of HACCP System in the Chinese Food Industry: A Comparative Analysis; 5 .I Introduction; 5.2 Method; 5.3 Results and Discussions; 5.3.1 Demographic Analysis; 5.3.2 Perceptions about the HACCP System; 5.3.3 Motives and External Factors to Encourage the Adoption of the HACCP System; 5.4 Conclusions and Implications; References

Chapter 6 An Empirical Analysis of the Implementation of Vegetable Quality and Safety Traceability Systems Centering on Wholesale Markets

Sommario/riassunto

In recent years, China has taken a number of effective measures to strengthen the supervision of food quality and safety, but food safety incidents still occur sometimes. The recurrence and intractability of such incidents suggest that, in addition to the imperfect supervision system, the greatest obstacle to China's food quality safety management is that China's "farm to fork" food supply chain has too many stages, the members on the supply chain have not formed a stable strategic and cooperative relation, and on the other hand, during the transitional period, some practitioners lack social r