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farm to fork
- Subject Category
- E Economics, Business and Industry
- Definition
- A description of all steps in the process, from beginning to end, involving the production, processing, packaging, handling, storage, preservation, distribution and preparation of a food product.
- Definition Source
- NAL Thesaurus Staff
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/137455.rdf
- Source
- Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN)
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/137455
- Used For
- farm to table
- food continuum
- Broader Term
- food supply chain
- Related Term
- CAC performance objective
- food handling
- food miles
- food packaging
- food preparation
- food preservation
- food processing
- food production
- food safety
- food storage
- food transport
- foodshed
- life cycle assessment
- local food systems
- on-farm food safety
- postharvest food safety
- traceability
- Spanish
- granja al tenedor
- Term Number
- 137455