Authors : Lata Sawarkar
Page Nos : 191-193
Description :
Food waste or food loss is that is discarded or cannot be used. The causes of food waste are
numerous and occur at the stage of production processing retailing and consumption. As of
–(2013) half of all food is wasted world wide .According to the British Institution of
mechanical engineers loss & wastage occurs all stages of food supply chain .In low income
countries most loss occur during production , while in the develop countries much food
about 100 kilo gm / person / year is waste at the consumption stage. Food loss measures
the decrease edible food mass throughout the part at the supply chain that specifically
leads to edible food for human consumption that is loss at the production postharvest and
processing stage. One way of dealing with food waste is to reduce its creation consumers
can reduce spoilage by planning their food shopping, avoiding , potentially wasteful
spontaneous purchases and storing food properly
Keywords: high level radioactive waste management, lean manufacturing, mini waste
