Organic food quality: a framework for concept, definition and evaluation from the European perspective

Johannes Kahl; Ton Baars; Susanne Gjedsted Bügel; Nicolaas Busscher; Machteld Huber; Daniel Kusche; Ewa Rembialkowska; Otto Schmid; Kathrin Seidel; Bruno Taupier-Letage; Alberta Velimirov; Agneta Zalecka

doi:10.1002/jsfa.5640

Organic food quality: a framework for concept, definition and evaluation from the European perspective

Johannes Kahl, Ton Baars, Susanne Gjedsted Bügel, Nicolaas Busscher, Machteld Huber, Daniel Kusche, Ewa Rembialkowska, Otto Schmid, Kathrin Seidel, Bruno Taupier-Letage, Alberta Velimirov, Agneta Zalecka

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Consumers buy organic food because they believe in the high quality of the product. Furthermore, the EU legal regulatory framework for organic food and farming defines high quality of the products as an important goal of production. A major challenge is the need to define food quality concepts and methods for determination. A background is described which allows embedding of the quality definitions as well as evaluation methods into a conceptual framework connected to the vision and mission of organic agriculture and food production. Organic food quality is defined through specific aspects and criteria. For evaluation each criterion has to be described by indicators. The determination of indicators should be through parameters, where parameters are described by methods. Conversely, the conceptual framework is described according to underlying principles and starting definitions are given, but further work has do be done on the detailed scientific description of the indicators. Furthermore, parameters have to be defined for the evaluation of suitability of these indicators for organic food production.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
Volume	92
Issue number	14
Pages (from-to)	2760-2765
Number of pages	6
ISSN	0022-5142
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.5640
Publication status	Published - Nov 2012

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Kahl, J., Baars, T., Bügel, S. G., Busscher, N., Huber, M., Kusche, D., Rembialkowska, E., Schmid, O., Seidel, K., Taupier-Letage, B., Velimirov, A., & Zalecka, A. (2012). Organic food quality: a framework for concept, definition and evaluation from the European perspective. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 92(14), 2760-2765. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.5640

Kahl, J, Baars, T, Bügel, SG, Busscher, N, Huber, M, Kusche, D, Rembialkowska, E, Schmid, O, Seidel, K, Taupier-Letage, B, Velimirov, A & Zalecka, A 2012, 'Organic food quality: a framework for concept, definition and evaluation from the European perspective', Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, vol. 92, no. 14, pp. 2760-2765. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.5640

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