In recent years, growing concern about hunger, resource conservation and the environmental and economic costs associated with food waste have raised public awareness of food loss. This in turn has accelerated public and private efforts to make better use of available food supplies by recovering safe and nutritious food that would otherwise be wasted. Food losses begin on the farm even before a commodity moves into the marketing system. Food is subject to additional loss as it leaves the farm and enters the food marketing system.Some loss occurs...