Postharvest Handling. Edition No. 3

Table of Contents

1. Postharvest systems New Contexts, New Imperatives 2. Challenges in Handling Fresh Fruits and Vegetables 3. Consumer Eating Habits and Perceptions of Fresh Produce Quality 4. Testing and Measuring Consumer Acceptance 5. Nutritional Quality of Fruits and Vegetables 6. Value Chain Management and Postharvest Handling 7. Consumer Expenditure on Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Purchase 8. Postharvest Regulation and Quality Standards on Fresh Produce 9. Fresh-cut Product Quality: Implications for a Systems Approach 10. Postharvest Handling and Quality Maintenance of Tropical Fruits 11. Microbial Quality and Safety of Fresh Produce 12. Sorting for Defects 13. Non-destructive Evaluation: Detection of External and Internal Attributes Frequently Associated with Quality and Damage 14. Measuring Quality and Maturity 15. Modeling Quality Attributes and Quality Related Product Properties 16. The Supply Value Chain of Fresh Produce from Field to Home: Refrigeration and Other Supporting Technologies 17. Traceability in Postharvest Systems 18. Fruits and Vegetables in International Trade: Forensic Aspects of Cargo Claims 19. Innovative and Integrated Approaches to Investigate Postharvest Stress Physiology and the Biological Basis of Fruit Quality During Storage 20. Challenges in Postharvest Handling

Authors

Florkowski, Wojciech J. Wojciech J. Florkowski has over 18 years of experience in research, project management, and training. His areas of specialization and expertise include agricultural economics and international business with emphasis on marketing and consumer studies, technology transfer and assessment, environmental policy analysis, and research policy. He is the author of over 200 publications on a variety of economic, marketing, consumer and policy issues, including the problems of agricultural productivity, policy, consumer willingness-to-pay and price behavior. He?co-edited?"Postharvest?Handling: A Systems Approach” (3rd edition) Shewfelt, Robert L. Robert L Shewfelt is Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Technology, University of Georgia. He advises more than 50 students and has taught 11 different courses in the past two years ranging from Freshman Seminars in Chocolate Science and Coffee Technology to graduate-level courses in Food Research & the Scientific Method. Dr. Shewfelt was also the 2006 recipient of the Cruess Award for Excellence in Teaching of IFT. He?co-edited?"Postharvest?Handling: A Systems Approach” (3rd edition) Prussia, Stanley E. Banks, Nigel Nigel Banks worked as a Professor of Postharvest Technology at Massey University and at ZESPRI as General Manager for Innovation, where he learned branding, growers, consumers, ways to connect them and the added value of an outstanding team. Through Postharvest.Co, Nigel is exploring new ways to connect postharvesters, art, online tools and learning with an eye to the increasingly pressing needs of our future world.