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    How do we assess, accept and mitigate risk in the food supply chain?

    Abstract

    Supply chain risks relate to the strategies, activities and the network structure of the food supply chain (Borghesi and Gaudenzi, 2013) who differentiate between dynamic components (the products, processes and technical knowledge employed) and the structural elements such the key actors involved (including the retailer, farmer, processor, food service, insurer, certification body, policy maker amongst others), the complexity of the relationships formed, the climate of the relationships in terms of collaborative or conflicting characteristics, and the type of goals each actor develops.

    Description

    Risk is ubiquitous in the food supply chain from farmer through to consumer. Zero risk does not exist therefore individuals and consumers alike must make decisions sometimes based on limited information on how the grow, manufacture, sell and ultimately eat food.

    Publications

    1. Soon, J.M., Manning, L. and Smith, R. (2019) Advancing understanding of pinchpoints and crime prevention in the food supply chain, Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 21(1)
    2. Soon, J.M and Manning, L (2018), Food Smuggling and trafficking: the key factors of influence, Trends in Food Science and Technology,81, 132-138
    3. Manning, L. and Soon, J.M. (2018) The value of product sampling in mitigating food adulteration in in Ron Hinch and Allison Gray (eds), A Handbook of Food Crime: Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do about Them (Policy Press, University of Bristol, UK). 978-1447336013
    4. Manning, L. and Luning, P. (2018), Chapter 16: Determining farm derived food safety risk Food safety for the 21st Century: Managing HACCP and Food Safety through the Global Chain, Wallace et al., Wiley Blackwell
    5. Baines, R.N. Manning L. and Soon J. M (2017 - earlycite) Mycotoxin incidents associated with cereals: Lessons learnt and risk reduction strategies, Quality Assurance and Safety of Crops and Foods http://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/abs/10.3920/QAS2016.1026?journalCode=qas
    6. Manning L. (2017) Verification of food safety management systems: alternative approaches .Food Safety & Quality Culture Excellence Seminar 7th December 2017 Campden BRI
    7. Soon, J. M., Manning, L. and Smith, R. (2017). Designing countermeasures for the mitigation of fraud in the food manufacturing environment. Poster (P1 200) presented at 31st European Food Science and Technology (EFFoST) Conference. Food Science and Technology Challenges for the 21st Century - Research to Progress Society. 13 - 16 November, Sitges, Spain.
    8. Soon, J. M. and Manning, L. (2017). Cousins of food fraud? Illegal import and food trade in EU. Poster (P2 009) presented at 31st European Food Science and Technology (EFFoST) Conference. Food Science and Technology Challenges for the 21st Century - Research to Progress Society. 13 - 16 November, Sitges, Spain.
    9. Soon, J.M and Manning L. (2017). Whistleblowing as a countermeasure strategy against food crime, British Food Journal, 119 (12), 1-25
    10. Soon, J.M and Manning, L. (2017) May Contain Allergen Statement: Facilitating or Frustrating Consumers, Journal of Consumer Policy DOI 10.1007/s10603-017-9358-8
    11. Hamilton-Webb A., Naylor, R. Manning, L. and Conway J. (2017). Living on the edge: using cognitive filters to appraise environmental risk, Journal of Risk Research, p. 1-17
    12. Manning L. (2017), Risk perceptions in the food supply chain, The Future of Food Safety Conference, University of Salford 18th May 2017
    13. Manning, L., and Soon, J.M., (2017). An alternative allergen risk management approach, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 57 (18) 3873-3886
    14. Hamilton-Webb, A., Manning, L., Naylor, R., and Conway, J., (2017), The relationship between risk experience and risk response: a study of climate change, Journal of Risk Research, 20 (11) 1379-1393
    15. Hamilton-Webb, A., Naylor, R., Manning, L. and Conway J. (2016), Farmers' experience of, and response to climate change in Gloucestershire - conclusions from a mixed method study, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2016 30th August – 2nd Sept 2016
    16. Reed, M., Manning, L. and Hemmings, A. (2015) Exotic Disease Compensation Review: Behaviours Project - Part 2 (Primary Research) SE4309. Report to Defra
    17. Hamilton-Webb, A., Naylor, R., Manning, L. and Conway J. (2016), A conceptual framework to understand farmers' response to climate change risk: A case study of Gloucestershire, England, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2016 30th August – 2nd Sept 2016
    18. Soon, J.M. and Manning, L.J. (2015). Holistic risk assessment: Enabling food policy. EFSA Journal 13(10): s1310, pg. 88.
    19. Wright, M., Ibrahim, F., Manning, L., and McKellar, D, (2014), Investigation of the overall effectiveness of food sampling and surveillance in the UK by local and port health authorities, FSA Project, Available at: http://www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/870-1-1613_GSB_CL2729_Effectiveness_of_sampling_main_report_R6_V3_ADCR.pdf
    20. Manning, L., Wright, M and McKellar, D (2014) Development of risk-based sampling guidance for enforcement officers, Details available at: http://www.food.gov.uk/science/research/research/choiceandstandardsresearch/fs222001 (Project duration 2013-2014) details not published by FSA to date.
    21. Wright, M., Manning, L. and McKellar, D. (2014) Risk and impact of internet selling of food. Research report for the Food Standards Agency, (2014), details not published by FSA to date.
    22. Manning, L., and Soon, J.M., (2013), "Mechanisms for assessing food safety risk", British Food Journal, 115 (3) 460-48
    23. Manning, L., (2013), "Development of a food safety verification risk model", British Food Journal, 115 (4) 575-589

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