A copy of this work was available on the public web and has been preserved in the Wayback Machine. The capture dates from 2017; you can also visit the original URL.
The file type is application/pdf.
Food Chain Security and Vulnerability
[chapter]
2010
Food Chain Security
Preserved Fulltext
In our contemporary societies, the food chain could be defined as a macrotechnical system, which depends on a wide variety of actors and risks analysis methods. In this contribution, risks related to the food chain are defined in terms of "modern risks" (Beck 1992). The whole national economic sector of food production/distribution is vulnerable to a local accident, which can affect the functioning of food chain, the export programs and even the political system. Such a complex socio-technical
doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9558-9_2
fatcat:akwdxq46hfgznbrhkf7qtmctbq