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Review
. 2021 Jul:125:108010.
doi: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2021.108010. Epub 2021 Feb 27.

Improvement strategies of food supply chain through novel food processing technologies during COVID-19 pandemic

Bimal Chitrakar  1 , Min Zhang  1   2 , Bhesh Bhandari  3
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Review

Improvement strategies of food supply chain through novel food processing technologies during COVID-19 pandemic

Bimal Chitrakar et al. Food Control. 2021 Jul.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a novel corona virus (SARS-CoV-2). No medical intervention has yet succeeded, though vaccine success is expected soon. However, it may take months or years to reach the vaccine to the whole population of the world. Therefore, the technological preparedness is worth to discuss for the smooth running of food processing activities. We have explained the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the food supply chain (FSC) and then discussed the technological interventions to overcome these impacts. The novel and smart technologies during food processing to minimize human-to-human and human-to-food contact were compiled. The potential virus-decontamination technologies were also discussed. Finally, we concluded that these technologies would make food processing activities smarter, which would ultimately help to run the FSC smoothly during COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Food-processing; Intelligent-technology; Novel-coronavirus; Novel-technology; Smart-detection; Smart-monitoring.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest on the contents of this paper.

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Activities that people willing to do during lockdown (abcNEWS, 2020).
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(A) Activities in a simple food supply chain (FSC); (B) Various components and sub-components in a food supply chain network.
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