Using a technological Approach to improve fresh food safety standards
King´ori, Stanley (2015)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015060412432
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2015060412432
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Consumer Safety in the fresh food industry is facing multiple threats with few measures being taken in assuring a complete eradication on hazardous materials and particles contaminating our foods. Many international and locally administered organizations have been put in place to check the safety of the fresh foods being sold to consumers.
This thesis goes into underlining what type of measures have been set up in the role of Safety Standards for fresh foods by these organizations. The findings are meant to indicate that tighter safety standards should be implemented and monitored at certain levels such as the basic level of food production and at different parts of the supply chain.
The research was undertaken using a deductive approach using real life case examples were gathered. Qualitative method also was used in the understanding of the scale of the threats facing the consumers and the environment. By having a deductive approach to the cases found in previous studies in electronic journals, press releases, a documentary film and published books that handled mostly the basis of Consumer Safety, the most outpouring issues were those that are centered around the ethics of a business trading environment, and how moral value and social responsibility seem to have lost their power in place of technological advancements in gene-engineering and profit making. These bring out superior food products yet that are low in safety.
The findings in this thesis point out deep concerns in the fresh food industry that have the capability to affecting human health at various levels in the long-term, also on climate change which has a direct effect on the farming industry. The author believes efforts to retain a safer environment by way of safety standards is key to be able to provide fresh foods to the consumers, to balance human activities and the surrounding environment.
This thesis goes into underlining what type of measures have been set up in the role of Safety Standards for fresh foods by these organizations. The findings are meant to indicate that tighter safety standards should be implemented and monitored at certain levels such as the basic level of food production and at different parts of the supply chain.
The research was undertaken using a deductive approach using real life case examples were gathered. Qualitative method also was used in the understanding of the scale of the threats facing the consumers and the environment. By having a deductive approach to the cases found in previous studies in electronic journals, press releases, a documentary film and published books that handled mostly the basis of Consumer Safety, the most outpouring issues were those that are centered around the ethics of a business trading environment, and how moral value and social responsibility seem to have lost their power in place of technological advancements in gene-engineering and profit making. These bring out superior food products yet that are low in safety.
The findings in this thesis point out deep concerns in the fresh food industry that have the capability to affecting human health at various levels in the long-term, also on climate change which has a direct effect on the farming industry. The author believes efforts to retain a safer environment by way of safety standards is key to be able to provide fresh foods to the consumers, to balance human activities and the surrounding environment.