Sustainability in the Food Industry

265 Pages·2009·2.368 MB·English

Sustainability
in the Food Industry
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A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
Sustainability
in the Food Industry
EDITOR
Cheryl Baldwin
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
CherylJ.Baldwin,PhD,isVicePresidentofScienceandStandardsforGreenSeal,aWashington
D.C.-basednon-profitorganizationdedicatedtosafeguardingtheenvironmentbytransformingthe
marketplacebypromotingthemanufacture,purchase,anduseofenvironmentalstandardsand
providingindependentcertificationtothosestandards.Previously,DrBaldwinservedasProgram
LeaderandSeniorResearchScientistatKraftFoods,Glenview,IL.
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1. Foodindustryandtrade. 2. Foodsupply. 3. Sustainable
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1 2009
TitlesintheIFTPressseries
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Accelerating New Food Product Design and Development (Jacqueline H. Beckley,
ElizabethJ.Topp,M.MicheleFoley,J.C.Huang,andWitoonPrinyawiwatkul)
(cid:2)
AdvancesinDairyIngredients(GeoffreyW.SmithersandMaryAnnAugustin)
(cid:2)
BiofilmsintheFoodEnvironment(HansP.Blaschek,HuaH.Wang,andMeredithE.
Agle)
(cid:2)
CalorimetryandFoodProcessDesign(Go¨nu¨lKaletunc¸)
(cid:2)
FoodIngredientsfortheGlobalMarket(Yao-WenHuangandClaireL.Kruger)
(cid:2)
Food Irradiation Research and Technology (Christopher H. Sommers and Xuetong
Fan)
(cid:2)
FoodLaws,RegulationsandLabeling(JosephD.Eifert)
(cid:2)
FoodRiskandCrisisCommunication(AnthonyO.FloodandChristineM.Bruhn)
(cid:2)
Foodborne Pathogens in the Food Processing Environment: Sources, Detection and
Control(SadhanaRavishankarandVijayK.Juneja)
(cid:2)
FunctionalProteinsandPeptides(YoshinoriMine,RichardK.Owusu-Apenten,and
BoJiang)
(cid:2)
HighPressureProcessingofFoods(ChristopherJ.DoonaandFlorenceE.Feeherry)
(cid:2)
HydrocolloidsinFoodProcessing(ThomasR.Laaman)
(cid:2)
MicrobialSafetyofFreshProduce:Challenges,PerspectivesandStrategies(Xuetong
Fan,BrendanA.Niemira,ChristopherJ.Doona,FlorenceE.Feeherry,andRobertB.
Gravani)
(cid:2)
MicrobiologyandTechnologyofFermentedFoods(RobertW.Hutkins)
(cid:2)
MultivariateandProbabilisticAnalysesofSensoryScienceProblems(Jean-Franc¸ois
Meullenet,RuiXiong,andChristopherJ.Findlay)
(cid:2)
NondestructiveTestingofFoodQuality(JosephIrudayarajandChristophReh)
(cid:2)
NanoscienceandNanotechnologyinFoodSystems(HongdaChen)
(cid:2)
NonthermalProcessingTechnologiesforFood(HowardQ.Zhang,GustavoV.Barbosa-
Ca`novas,V.M.Balasubramaniam,Editors;C.PatrickDunne,DanielF.Farkas,James
T.C.Yuan,AssociateEditors)
(cid:2)
Nutraceuticals,GlycemicHealthandType2Diabetes(VijaiK.PasupuletiandJames
W.Anderson)
(cid:2)
PackagingforNonthermalProcessingofFood(J.H.Han)
(cid:2)
PreharvestandPostharvestFoodSafety:ContemporaryIssuesandFutureDirections
(RossC.Beier,SureshD.Pillai,andTimothyD.Phillips,Editors;RichardL.Ziprin,
AssociateEditor)
(cid:2)
ProcessingandNutritionofFatsandOils(ErnestoM.HernandezandAfafKamal-
Eldin)
(cid:2)
ProcessingOrganicFoodsfortheGlobalMarket(GwendolynV.Wyard,AnnePlotto,
JessicaWalden,andKathrynSchuett)
(cid:2)
RegulationofFunctionalFoodsandNutraceuticals:AGlobalPerspective(ClareM.
Hasler)
(cid:2)
SensoryandConsumerResearchinFoodProductDesignandDevelopment(Howard
R.Moskowitz,JacquelineH.Beckley,andAnnaV.A.Resurreccion)
(cid:2)
SustainabilityintheFoodIndustry(CherylJ.Baldwin)
(cid:2)
WaterActivityinFoods:FundamentalsandApplications(GustavoV.Barbosa-Ca`novas,
AnthonyJ.Fontana,Jr,ShellyJ.Schmidt,andTheodoreP.Labuza)
(cid:2)
WheyProcessing,FunctionalityandHealthBenefits(CharlesI.OnwulataandPeterJ.
Huth)
Contents
Contributors ix
Introduction xiii
Chapter 1. Agriculture 3
CharlesFrancisandJustinVanWart
Chapter 2. FoodProcessingandFoodWaste 23
TranThiMyDieu
Chapter 3. Distribution 61
RichPirog,BenChampion,TimCrosby,
SaraKaplan,andRebeccaRasmussen
Chapter 4. Packaging 101
AaronL.Brody
Chapter 5. LifeCycleAssessmentAcrosstheFood
SupplyChain 115
LisbethMogensen,JohnE.Hermansen,
NielsHalberg,RandiDalgaard,J.C.Vis,
andB.GailSmith
Chapter 6. SocialAspectsoftheFoodSupplyChain 145
KanthaShelke,JustinVanWart,CharlesFrancis
Chapter 7. EcolabelingandConsumerInterestin
SustainableProducts 159
AmarjitSahota,BarbaraHaumann,
HollyGivens,andCherylBaldwin
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viii Contents
Chapter 8. SustainabilityinFoodandBeverage
ManufacturingCompanies 185
CheriChastain,J.C.Vis,B.GailSmith,
JeffChahley
Chapter 9. SustainabilityinFoodRetailing 213
CherylBaldwin
Chapter 10. SustainabilityinFoodService 225
JohnTurenne
Chapter 11. SustainabilityPrinciplesandSustainable
InnovationforFoodProducts 239
CherylBaldwinandNanaT.Wilberforce
Index 251
Contributors
CherylBaldwin(Introduction,Chapters7,9,and11)
GreenSeal,Inc.,Washington,DC20036
AaronL.Brody(Chapter4)
Packaging/BrodyInc.Duluth,GA30095
JeffChahley(Chapter8)
KraftFoods,Northfield,IL60093
BenChampion(Chapter3)
Department of Geography, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
66506
CheriChastain(Chapter8)
Sustainability Coordinator, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Chico, CA
95928
TimCrosby(Chapter3)
GrowingWashington,Edmonds,WA98020
RandiDalgaard(Chapter5)
DepartmentofAgroecologyandEnvironment,FacultyofAgricultural
Sciences,UniversityofAarhus,Tjele,Denmark
TranThiMyDieu(Chapter2)
DepartmentofEnvironmentalTechnologyandManagement,VanLang
University,HoChiMinhCity,Vietnam
ix
x Contributors
CharlesFrancis(Chapters1and6)
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln,NE68583
HollyGivens(Chapter7)
OrganicTradeAssociation,Washington,DC20008
NielsHalberg(Chapter5)
DanishResearchCentreforOrganicFoodandFarmingDARCOF,Tjele,
Denmark
BarbaraHaumann(Chapter7)
OrganicTradeAssociation,Washington,DC20008
JohnE.Hermansen(Chapter5)
DepartmentofAgroecologyandEnvironment,FacultyofAgricultural
Sciences,UniversityofAarhus,Tjele,Denmark
SaraKaplan(Chapter3)
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University,
Ames,IA50011
LisbethMogensen(Chapter5)
DepartmentofAgroecologyandEnvironment,FacultyofAgricultural
Sciences,UniversityofAarhus,Tjele,Denmark
RichPirog(Chapter3)
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University,
Ames,IA50011
RebeccaRasmussen(Chapter3)
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University,
Ames,IA50011
AmarjitSahota(Chapter7)
OrganicMonitor,London,UnitedKingdom
KanthaShelke(Chapter6)
CorvusBlue,Chicago,IL60610
Contributors xi
B.GailSmith(Chapters5and8)
SustainableAgricultureScientist,UnileverResearch,UnitedKingdom
JohnTurenne(Chapter10)
SustainableFoodSystems,Wallingford,CT06492
J.C.Vis(Chapters5and8)
SustainableAgricultureProgrammeDirector,UnileverN.V.,
theNetherlands
JustinVanWart(Chapters1and6)
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln,NE68583
NanaT.Wilberforce(Chapter11)
GreenSeal,Inc.Washington,DC20036