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Mattrygghet

“MATTRYGGHET” refers to the assurance and guarantee of the safety and quality of food products, ensuring that they are free from contaminants, harmful substances, and meet specific standards and regulations for consumption. Food safety measures encompass various aspects such as handling, processing, storage, transportation, and labeling of food to protect consumer health and prevent foodborne illnesses.

Codex Alimentarius

Agricultural Building Power

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Camellia sinensis var.

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Welding on the Farm

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Looking after cows on Irish dairy farms

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Kerala Agricultural University: Chocolate

Readings

How to Make the Best Hot Chocolate, According to the Experts

Hersheyland: Hot Cocoa for One

Coffee

Ancient Money Systems:

  1. Barter system: The oldest form of money system, where goods and services were exchanged directly for other goods and services without the use of money.
  2. Cowrie shells: Cowrie shells were used as currency in many parts of the world, including Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands. The shells were valued for their beauty, durability, and rarity.
  3. Commodity money: This system involved the use of valuable commodities, such as salt, spices, and precious metals (such as gold), as a medium of exchange. The value of the commodity was determined by its scarcity and desirability.
  4. Grain-based systems: In ancient civilizations such as Egypt and Mesopotamia, grain was often used as a form of currency. Farmers would pay their taxes in grain, and grain would be used to pay wages to workers.
  5. Coinage: The use of coins as a medium of exchange emerged in ancient Greece and spread throughout the Roman Empire. Coins were typically made of precious metals, such as gold and silver, and their value was determined by their weight and purity.

Flag-Shaped Fruit Sticks

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Beef Teaching Farm

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Coffee

“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence
of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, 1858)

Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet

As the U.S. member body to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) encourages its members and relevant stakeholders to participate in discovering standardization solutions in a broad range of technologies and markets with like-minded experts in other national standards bodies.  The full sweep of ANSI’s participation in consensus documents developed by the ISO is described in the link below:

ISO Programs – Overview

Today we revisit a product familiar to daily life at home and in business: coffee.   The ISO administers leading practice discovery and promulgation in the global coffee value chain through parent Technical Committee 34 (TC34) with the Association Française de Normalisation as the global Secretariat with the Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas as the twinned Secretariat*.  Subcommittee 15 oversees standardization in the field of coffee and coffee products, covering the coffee chain from green coffee to consumption, in particular. Standardization includes terminology, sampling, test methods and analysis, product specifications and requirements for packaging, storage and transportation

From the ISO/TC 34 prospectus:

Business Plan ISO TC34 Food Products

Sample from ISO Online Browing Platform: (Expect strong access firewalls)

Coffee and coffee products — Vocabulary

Coffee — Sensory analysis — Vocabulary

Roasted ground coffee — Determination of moisture content

The Secretariats for this subcommittee is currently held by Colombia (ICONTEC) but, with ANSI announcing in 2019 that it is relinquishing its role as the US Technical Advisory Group Administrator in 2019, there has been no US stakeholder participating.  In 2019 ANSI posted an invitation for another US-based stakeholder to assume the voice of the United States:

ANSI Standards Action Page 34

ANSI US TAGs to the International Organization for Standardization

Apart from the passion that young people have for fair trade in any market, we see this as an opportunity for faculty and students to gain insight into the geo-politics of food supply generally and the subtleties of coffee markets.   Business schools, agricultural colleges, international studies program developers who may be, and should be, interested in a leadership opportunity on behalf of the United States should communicate directly with ANSI’s ISO Team ((isot@ansi.org).

We devotes an hour every month to review public commenting opportunities on all international standards.  The work products of TC 34 appears on the standing agenda of both our Global and Food teleconferences.   See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting.

 

Issue: [19-46]

Category: Academic, International

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Christine Fischer

ISO Guidance on Twinning


LEARN MORE:

“The Golden Cup” Coffee Standards

“Gold Cup History & Future”

 

 

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