Sustainability and the circular economy: The impact on food safety
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- Closed
- Submission deadline
The need for a globally sustainable food system is imperative to ensure the world’s growing population has access to safe, sufficient, healthy and nutritious food. The circular economy concept is focused on eliminating food waste and food losses, as well as environmental impacts, and is an important element of a truly sustainable food system.
New innovations in food science will, however, bring new challenges to the community. Even small changes to how food is grown, manufactured, packaged, stored and transported can have substantial impacts on its safety, and the drive for sustainability and circularity brings massive changes right across the food system from farms to our forks. New technologies bring the potential to solve many existing food safety challenges, but can also introduce new issues or exacerbate existing problems.
The identification of how systems changes will contribute to new or heightened, or even reduced, hazards is an emerging and important topic, with many questions to be answered. In this Collection we invite manuscripts which cover all aspects of how changes to our global food systems to make them more sustainable and circular will also change the risks to food safety.
We are particularly interested in the impacts of important issues such as:
- Reduction of artificial fertilizers and chemicals, and use of their alternatives on food safety
- Impact of re-use of water on food safety
- Transfer of chemicals and microbiological hazards in the circular food system
- Mitigation of food safety risks in sustainable and circular food systems
- Production and use of alternatives for animal proteins
- Human exposure to natural toxins and man-made chemicals
- The changing landscape of exposure to known and emerging food allergens.
In this Collection we will consider Reviews, Research Articles, Perspectives and Comments.
This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 2.
Editors
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Ine van der Fels-Klerx
Wageningen University, Netherlands
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Chris Elliot
Queen's University Belfast, UK
