Management Review

›› 2020, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (4): 12-20.

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A New Paradigm of Food Quality Management Based on Food Quality Chain

Wang Haiyan1,2, Zhan Shalei1,2, Chen Daqiang1,2   

  1. 1. School of Management and E-business, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018;
    2. Food and Drug Quality & Safety Engineering Research Institute of Zhejiang, Hangzhou 310018
  • Received:2019-07-05 Online:2020-04-28 Published:2020-05-07

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Abstract:

This paper proposes a new paradigm of food quality management based on food quality chain. First, the food quality evolution is demonstrated as a complex system with multi-entity, multi-stage, and uncertain characteristics. Second, a food quality chain network based on GERT and complex network integration is built. The network consists of two parts:the quality link level and the influencing factor level. The quality link level is represented by GERT networks. The connections between influencing factor level and quality link level, as well as the internal connections in influencing factor level, are represented by complex networks. On this basis, a new paradigm of food quality management is put forward, including:building a food ecological network architecture with bi-network fusing and overall optimization, forming the food quality evolution process with bi-network linking and technology leading, then realizing the food quality collaborative control with bi-network coordination and multi-part governance, and finally achieving the food safety risk management with bi-network updating and data-driven pre-warning.

Key words: food quality and safety, food quality chain, GERT, complex network, risk management