The term quality, as applied to the food
industry, is a complex concept defined on the basis of the satisfaction of the
final consumer preferences, which can at present include concepts of very
different nature relating to food security, sustainability, the environment,
animal welfare or nutritional values, among others.
The International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) defines quality as the ability of a product or service to
satisfy stated or implied needs of the consumer through its properties or
characteristics.
To analyze the concept of quality food
products, the following categories can be distinguished: food safety,
nutritional quality, quality according to value attributes.
According to the value attributes, the quality
of a product is determined with reference to the information accessed by
consumers on the characteristics organoleptic, nutritional, medical as well as
on cultural and social values in their production process of a product. Three
groups of value attributes can be established:
• Search attributes. Those which can be known
before purchase (the trademark, weight or size, kind of package, packaging
format, etc.). Thanks to the new comparator www.infovegetables.com this information can be known instantly helping in the decision making
process. For example, if you want to know the different brands as well as Spanish producers
who can supply tomatoes. In a very easy way, without revealing any information
about yourself or your company, you may specify by clicking on the image:
In this way you will
be able to know and compare the offers of different Spanish tomato growers
before making your purchase or contacting them.
• Experience
attributes. Those that may be known once the product has been consumed. These
attributes are what make a consumer back to purchase a particular product once
it has already tried. Also, through www.infovegetables.com we encourage you to share your opinion about the product or producer
you wish and compare different point of views and information about fruit and
vegetables producers for free.
• Confidence
attributes. Features that are not usually known by the consumer before or after
consuming the product, or it may be at a very high cost (waste treatment
system, place of origin, etc). However, from Infovegetables we are committed to
helping importers of fruit and vegetable all over Europe for free and offer
them direct information about Spanish product an producers to the maximum
extent possible.
In line with the
previous classification, the certification has its reason of being in the
assurance of trust attributes. Through certification and labelling producing
companies try to get the trust attributes become searchable attributes. There
are different certifications that directly affect the production of fruits and
vegetables. The most important are GLOBAL GAP and AENOR.
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