Dear Colleagues,

Food safety and food quality terms can sometimes generate confusion. Food safety is concerned with all those hazards that may make food injurious to the consumer’s health and such aspects are not negotiable. Instead, food quality encompasses all other attributes that influence a product's value for the consumer such as product origin, sensory properties, nutritional attributes, functional activities, and shelf-life of the food. This distinction between safety and quality has implications for public policy and influences the nature and content of the food control system most suited to meeting predetermined national objectives. The food safety and quality of products are guaranteed along the food chain by the coordination of several actors that have the common goal of delivering high-value foods to consumers by producing/processing food matrices according to high-quality standards. Recent multidisciplinary research efforts deal with the need to conciliate the improvement of food quality and safety and the sustainability of food systems.

Considering your interest in this current research topic, we cordially invite you to submit a high-quality original research paper or review to this Special Issue of J—Multidisciplinary Scientific Journal.

Dr. Vittorio Capozzi
Dr. Francesco Bimbo
Dr. Mariagiovanna Fragasso
Guest Editors

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• Sustainable food systems
• Quality
• Safety
• Consumer sciences
• Food processing
• Food analysis
• Systems design
• Food technologies
• Agricultural economics
• Food environment