Food Terrorism

Abstract

Terrorism is the premeditated use of violence or intimidation by individuals or groups to obtain a political or religious objective. Food terrorism is an intentional contamination of the food intended to inflict harm, cause illness/death, or produce mass food poisoning. It is an old concept that uses food as a weapon of attack. The main terrorists can resort to food terrorism. Their intention is to injure members of the population at large. This paper provides a brief introduction to food terrorism.

Perspectives on the trends, challenges and benefits of green, smart and organic (GSO) foods

“…They can also be regarded as functional foods, which provide advanced technological properties and health claims, and may also be derived from the recycling of food wastes ( Galanakis, 2012 , 2013 , 2015 ; Ashaolu, 2020 ). Rapid rate of urbanization and industrialization has turned our planet lopsided in favor of fast foods, food fraud, food terrorism, food waste, food adulteration, food poisoning, food contamination and food injustice ( Sadiku et al, 2019a , Sadiku et al, 2019b , Sadiku et al, 2019c , Sadiku et al, 2019d ; 2020a ), leading to the introduction of GSO products, also regarded as environment-friendly products. Green foods are those produced under the principle of sustainable development, fine quality, nutrition, health and safety ( Khan et al, 2015 ).…”