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The Safety Aspects of Food Waste Valorization

Maintaining Quality Assurance in Resource Recovery

  • 1st Edition - March 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Sidonia Martínez Suárez, Beatriz Gullón Estévez
  • Language: English

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Description

The Safety Aspects of Food Waste Valorization: Maintaining Quality Assurance in Resource Recovery highlights the importance of safe food waste practices and strategies to effectively transform waste into valuable resources. Co-edited by two female authors with many global, female contributors represented, the book looks at the environmental consequences of food waste and its impact on human health. It details the risks associated with the use of food waste, analyzes food safety in valorized agri-food by-products, with a focus on mycotoxins, and demonstrates how to minimize safety risks from a variety of industries, including date-palm industrialization, wine, produce, cattle, olive oil and dairy.

Finally, the book provides practical business strategies for bioactive ingredients derived from food by-products and details the recovery of food waste from an environmental and economic perspective.

Key features

  • Analyzes the safety of waste and potential health risks to consumers and the environment
  • Proposes strategies and innovative technologies to avoid these health risks
  • Demonstrates how recovery, characterization, and application of bioactive compounds from food by-products aid in waste valorization
  • Discusses different bioactive compounds to enhance food shelf-life
  • Details sustainable food waste valorization efforts

Readership

Researchers working across the food sciences in the areas of food quality and safety, microbiology, food waste, new product development, biodiversity, sustainability and consumer science

Table of contents

Introduction: Food Waste: Safety, and Sustainability Implications
General risks associated with the safety of food waste and how to overcome them


1. Mitigating risk

2. Solutions and applications (to be discussed: Classic Methods of Food Valorization techniques and the safety risks associated with them such as cross contamination, Proper handling and treatment of: Fermentation, composting, bioconversion, extraction etc.)

Section 1: The Safety Valorization of Different Food Wastes

3. Safety Assessment of Orange peels-derived food ingredients for human consumption

4. Mitigating Apple Supply Chain Losses: Insights, Solutions, and Applications

5. Co-products from date-palm industrialization: main characteristics, associated safety risks and strategies to minorize them during processing

6. Winery by-products as a source of bioactive compounds: Antioxidant recovery as a case study

7. Recovery, characterization, and application of bioactive compounds obtained from various vegetable by-products

8. Extraction of phospholipids and tocopherols from squid by-products by employing non-toxic solvents in one-step and two-step process

9. Microbiological quality of animal waste

10. Bioactive ingredients from liquid food wastes or by-products (addressing challenges and mitigation)

10. olive oil or oil industry wastewater

11. dairy wastes and their applications

Section 2: Sustainable approaches

12. Bio-based films for food packages

13. Integral valorization of food by-products in a biorefinery context: A sustainability approach

14. Food safety in valorized agri-food by products. Focus on mycotoxins

15. Microbial fermentation as sustainable approach for Food Wastes and Byproduct valorization: known strains, probiotics and prebiotics, bioactives and valuable nutrients, functional food products

16. Innovative Technologies for the Sustainable Recovery of Bioactive Ingredients and Nutraceuticals from Food Waste and By-Product

Section 3: Trends/Challenges/Future

17. Latest trends, challenges and new innovations in food waste and how they affect safety challenges

18. Consumer awareness

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Sidonia Martínez Suárez

Sidonia Martínez Suárez is Associate Professor of Food Technology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Vigo, Spain. She has a Ph.D. in Veterinary Medicine from the University of León, Spain. Her research focuses on the study and improvements of traditional foods such as meat, meat products, milk, dairy products, starter cultures, fish products, vegetables, and antioxidant components. She has worked with different Brassica spp. and fish species and developed different products with them. She has co-authored 47 articles published in different journals indexed in the JCR, including Food Microbiology, Food Control, Food Chemistry, and Meat Science. She also co-authored one book and 5 book chapters, and 30 long communications and 80 short communications presented at international conferences and events. She devotes her time as Visiting Professor, and a Doctor and Associate Professor where she co-supervises 5 doctoral thesis, 16 master thesis, and 41 final degree projects.

Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Food Technology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Vigo, Spain

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Beatriz Gullón Estévez

Dr. Estévez has a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering. She takes a bio-refinery approach to her research activity which focuses on the valorization of agro-food industrial residues/by-products through different biotechnological processes to obtain bioactive compounds, mainly oligosaccharides, antioxidants, organic acids.

Affiliations and expertise
University of Vigo, Spain