Quality management in food chains / edited by Ludwig Theuvsen ... [et al.].

• Author: European Association of Agricultural Economists. Seminar
• TeilnehmendeR: Theuvsen, Ludwig.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)
• Notes: "The following book includes 38 papers contributed by participants in the EAAE Seminar on Quality Management and Quality Assurance in Food Chains held at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen in 2005."--P. 13.

Table of Contents

Table of contents; Perspectives of quality management in modern agribusiness; Ludwig Theuvsen and Achim Spiller; Invited speakers; Economics of standard owners: competition as barrier to global harmonisation of food assurance systems; Kristian Möller; Façade and means of control: the use of ISO 9000 standards; Peter Walgenbach; Firm's costs and benefits of quality management and quality assurance systems; Firm's costs of traceability confronted with consumer requirements; Xavier Gellynck, Renata Januszewska, Wim Verbeke and Jacques Viaene

The effect of transaction costs associated with certification of exports on the profitability of farming systems for Chilean small farmersPablo Villalobos1, Michel Leporati2, Luis Saez2 and Carlos Padilla1; Production costs of citrus growing in the Comunidad Valenciana (Spain): EurepGAP protocol versus standard production; Elena Maria Peris Moll and Juan Francisco Juliá Igual; The role of ISO standards in micro and small-scale food ingredient companies; Miriam Quintero Arellanes and Seamus O'Reilly; Company costs and benefits of organic processed food; Cristina Mora and Davide Menozzi

The effects of certification costs on the success of a PDO/PGIGiovanni Belletti, Tunia Burgassi, Andrea Marescotti and Silvia Scaramuzzi; Strategic, organisational and human resource management aspects of quality management; Improving quality-related communication in food chains with Quality Function Deployment: the dairy industry; Martina Peupert and Ludwig Theuvsen; Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) as a decision support tool within a quality information system in pork production chains; Andreas Gödderz1, Thomas Schmitz2, Adriane Mack1 and Brigitte Petersen1

Quality assurance in agribusiness: evaluating 'Qualität und Sicherheit' and 'QM Milch' from a Total Quality Management perspectiveLudwig Theuvsen and Martina Peupert; Regional quality programs: relevance, objectives and strategies; Oliver Poignée and Gerhard Schiefer; Development of a process oriented management system based on a data bank: an approach to successfully fulfil quality requirements in food industry; Hartmut F. Binner and Christiane Jansen; Network management for dairy productivity and quality in Ethiopia; Marijke D'Haese1, Gian-Nicola Francesconi1 and Ruerd Ruben2

Organisational process alternatives for process simulation in agri-food processing and trade: the case of the grain chainThomas Hannus, Volker Jahn, Oliver Poignée and Gerhard Schiefer; Maintaining organic integrity: tackling fraud in organics; Jochen Neuendorff and Ulrich Fischer; Consumers' expectations of quality assurance and management systems; Food quality signals and customer confusion: is there a relevance for the marketing of food products?; Rainer Kühl and Wiebke Schulz; Brands as quality signals in the meat market: lessons from the poultry sector; Maren Lüth and Achim Spiller

Food quality from a consumer's perspective