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Food Safety in Local Farming of Fruits and Vegetables
The world’s population will be around 9 billion people by 2050. Humans need to feed in order to survive and thus the high demographic growth may impact the sustainability of our food systems. Sustainable food production practices such as local farming have been explored. Consumption of vegetables an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8469988/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34574658 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189733 |
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author | Macieira, Ariana Barbosa, Joana Teixeira, Paula |
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description | The world’s population will be around 9 billion people by 2050. Humans need to feed in order to survive and thus the high demographic growth may impact the sustainability of our food systems. Sustainable food production practices such as local farming have been explored. Consumption of vegetables and fruits has been increasing due to their health benefits, but this increase is also related to a significant number of foodborne outbreaks. Foodborne outbreaks pose a threat to public health and the economy on a local and national scale. Food safety begins on the farm and proceeds over the supply chain. Thus, to provide safe products, food producers must follow specific procedures to avoid food hazards along the supply chain. This work aimed to present the importance of food safety in vegetables and fruits in local farming, as this form of production and consumption has increased in several countries of the northern hemisphere and as these are considered a form of providing more sustainable food products. |
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spelling | pubmed-84699882021-09-27 Food Safety in Local Farming of Fruits and Vegetables Macieira, Ariana Barbosa, Joana Teixeira, Paula Int J Environ Res Public Health Review The world’s population will be around 9 billion people by 2050. Humans need to feed in order to survive and thus the high demographic growth may impact the sustainability of our food systems. Sustainable food production practices such as local farming have been explored. Consumption of vegetables and fruits has been increasing due to their health benefits, but this increase is also related to a significant number of foodborne outbreaks. Foodborne outbreaks pose a threat to public health and the economy on a local and national scale. Food safety begins on the farm and proceeds over the supply chain. Thus, to provide safe products, food producers must follow specific procedures to avoid food hazards along the supply chain. This work aimed to present the importance of food safety in vegetables and fruits in local farming, as this form of production and consumption has increased in several countries of the northern hemisphere and as these are considered a form of providing more sustainable food products. MDPI 2021-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8469988/ /pubmed/34574658 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189733 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Macieira, Ariana Barbosa, Joana Teixeira, Paula Food Safety in Local Farming of Fruits and Vegetables |
title | Food Safety in Local Farming of Fruits and Vegetables |
title_full | Food Safety in Local Farming of Fruits and Vegetables |
title_fullStr | Food Safety in Local Farming of Fruits and Vegetables |
title_full_unstemmed | Food Safety in Local Farming of Fruits and Vegetables |
title_short | Food Safety in Local Farming of Fruits and Vegetables |
title_sort | food safety in local farming of fruits and vegetables |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8469988/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34574658 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189733 |
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