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1.Quality
It is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfils requirements. A common definition
of quality is ‘the total of features and characteristics of a product or service that bears on the ability
to satisfy given needs’. The view of quality as the satisfaction of customer needs is often called
‘fitness for use’. Most progressive organizations define quality as follows ‘quality is meeting or
exceeding customer expectations’.
Safety of food is a basic requirement of food quality. "Food safety" implies absence or acceptable
and safe levels of contaminants, adulterants, naturally occurring toxins or any other substance that
may make food injurious to health on an acute or chronic basis.
Food quality can be considered as a complex characteristic of food that determines its value or
acceptability to consumers. Besides safety, quality attributes include: nutritional value;
organoleptic properties such as appearance, color, texture, taste; and functional properties.
2.Quality control
It is the evaluation of a final product prior to its marketing, i.e. it is based on quality checks at the
end of a production chain aiming at assigning the final product to quality categories such as "high
quality", "regular quality", "low quality" and "non-marketable". Since, at the end of the production
chain, there is no way to correct production failures or upgrade the quality of the final product, the
low-quality products can only be sold at lower prices and the non-marketable products have to be
discarded. Their production costs, however, had been as high as those of the high and regular
quality products. Thus, quality control has only a limited potential to increase the quality and
efficiency of a multi-step production procedure.
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