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Food quality and safety is the foremost issue amongst the present days’ consumers. Fresh fruits and vegetables are often thought of as healthful, nutritious foods having no risk of food borne illness associated with their consumption. However recent food borne illness outbreaks in countries have been traced to fresh fruits, vegetables, juices and milk. These incidences have caused producers, processors, transporters, distributors, and importers to re-evaluate quality of their fresh fruits and vegetables produce and identify the hazardous points such as production, handling and processing systems to prevent any food borne diseases.
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Jha, S.N. (2010). Food Quality and Safety: An Overview. In: Jha, S. (eds) Nondestructive Evaluation of Food Quality. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15796-7_1
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