Policy Articles

Certification System for Food Safety

Shunichi Matsui
2019.06.18
ABSTRACT There are many food safety hazards that exist that make it difficult for experts to manage them perfectly. However, there are systematic methods of minimizing the occurrence of risks. One method is the third-party certification systems for food safety. This paper studies how the idea...
Country: Japan Topic: Food security and safety
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Korean Gap Trends Focused on Environmentally and Consumer Friendly Food Production

Hwang-Yong Kim
2019.06.18
ABSTRACT Korean GAP certification system plays an important role in the consumer-friendly and eco-friendly development of Korean agriculture. It was established in 2006. Since then the number of certified farms has been continuously increased. In 2017, it exceeded 86,000, which is approximately 8....
Country: Korea Topic: Food security and safety
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Food Safety and Traceability of Agricultural Products

Chan-Chiung Liu
2019.06.18
ABSTRACT "Traceability/Good Agricultural Product", better known as TAP system, is the traceability system of agricultural products in Taiwan. It mandates participants to record all stages of production, processing, distribution and sales, and make it public once the product is certified...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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Japan's Smart Food Value Chain: From Consumer to Agri-Food Industries

Toshio Ohtani
2019.06.18
ABSTRACT   The Japanese Cabinet adopted the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan as a basic policy of science and technology innovation of five years from 2016 to 2020 and determined ‘Society 5.0’ as a future industrial structure and the ideal form of social system. Many of the...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural value chains
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Innovations in Vegetable Food Systems for Food Safety and Nutrition Security in Lower and Middle Income Countries in Asia

C. George Kuo, Delphine Larrousse
2019.06.18
ABSTRACT   Globally, one person in three is malnourished. The coexistence of undernutrition with overweight and obesity, and micronutrient deficiencies clearly indicates that current food systems are failing people’s health. More than half of the world’s malnourished children live in Asia and the...
Country: Others Topic: Food security and safety
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