**Advances in Food Processing (Food Preservation, Food Safety, Quality and Manufacturing Processes)**

Editors

**Theodoros Varzakas Panagiotis Tsarouhas**

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*Editors* Theodoros Varzakas Food Science and Technology University of the Peloponnese Kalamata Greece Panagiotis Tsarouhas Department of Supply Chain Management International Hellenic University Katerini Greece

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## **Contents**


### **Ying Liu, Huan Cheng and Dan Wu**


### **About the Editors**

#### **Theodoros Varzakas**

Theodoros Varzakas is a senior full professor at the Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Peloponnese, Greece, specializing in issues of food technology, food quality, and safety; a section editor in chief (2020–) for Food Security and Sustainability in the journal *Foods*; a former editor in chief for the *Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science Journal* (2015–2019); and a reviewer and member of the editorial board in many international journals. Varzakas has written more than 200 research papers and reviews and has presented more than 160 papers and posters at national and international conferences. He has written and edited six books in Greek and six in English.

#### **Panagiotis Tsarouhas**

Panagiotis Tsarouhas has a Diploma in Engineering and a PhD. He is an associate professor at International Hellenic University (Greece), Department of Supply Chain Management (Logistics). He worked for about ten years in the Technical Department at 'Chipita International SA'in Greece as the head of production and maintenance operations in plants for the food industry. He has about 30 years of research/teaching experience and has published more than 90 research papers in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has been involved in many research and practical projects in the field of reliability analysis and maintenance engineering. His areas of interest are reliability and maintenance engineering, quality engineering, and supply chain management.
