Quality Safety Risk Evaluation of Agriculture Product Cold Chain:A 4M1E Analysis Framework

Abstract

Due to the lack of an efficient cold chain logistics process, China's agricultural postpartum loss has been serious for a long time, and frequent food safety accidents occur. It is of necessity to establish a quality safety management system for the agricultural product cold chain in China. From the five dimensions of man, machine, material, method, and environment (4M1E), we identify the quality risk structure of the agri-food cold chain. An evaluation system is established with the combination of the analytic hierarchy process and entropy value method. A case study demonstrates the effectiveness of the risk assessment system to help enterprises for decision-making on cold chain operations.