Internal auditing should be conducted on a repeated to make external auditing a smooth running process. Seconding the aforementioned information, it has been extremely pressing on the researchers and the personnel involved with the work to change the mind sets of producers, consumers and retailers regarding the advancement of food waste management methods and their coping with it. The priority should lie in maximizing food sales, and giving away or selling foods past their prime involved risks that may undermine sales.
That said “reducing the food waste is one heck of a target of this hostile present day world”. We should, however, understand that it is achievable on financial terms. More than that, we should change our age old perceptions about the morphology of the foods we eat. It has been understood that a large amounts of food waste in the United Kingdom and most of Europe comes from packaging alone. Educating the consumers and bringing changes to the supply chains will aid us well in solving this issue. However, there will be evidences where consumers dump the trash to avoid paying for the food waste management programs.
I understand there in my chosen area of research, lies work in abundance to be done in order to evaluate and incorporate the initial phases of the food system. The agricultural sector, in the most recent times has had a major impact on environmental degradation, and it will keep having an impact in the near future, owing to the large contributions towards resource requirements, emissions and waste production. This brings us to addressing the food system of the present day and chalking out plans and proposals to modify it.
We should, hence, march ahead towards adopting a holistic approach for food security and global health. The FSRI - Food System Recycling Index will best serve as an indicator of systemic sustainability in the near future. It is mainly concentrated on giving the whole picture of the amount of available food recycled in the acceptable levels of waste management. We should also understand that food and health security is not only concerned with lack of food availability. The environmental health and our well-being solely and surely depend on how efficiently we produce our food and how best we handle the associated wastes.
Mr. Ravi Teja Mandapaka