Potato Council

Nowadays potato is one of the major food crops in the world. Heavy yields can be grown relatively cheaply in a wide variety of soils and climates, and potatoes are one of the mainstays in the diet of people in many parts of the world. In 2005 total EU 25 (Europe of the 25) potato production reached 58 848 0731, with yields of 29.2 t/ha and a cultivation area of 1 985 358 ha (British Potato Council, 2007). Thus, potato processing and potato products are popular and acceptable throughout Europe. Figure 7.1 shows the 2005 production and external trade in processed potatoes for the European Union (25 countries). The main item is frozen potatoes, including prefried, at 3 414 9311, followed by potatoes prepared or preserved as potato chips or crisps, 1 647 9501 dried potatoes in the form of flour, meal, flakes, granules, and flakes, 280 3771 potatoes prepared or preserved in the form of flour, meal, or flakes (excluding frozen, dried, crisps), 207 0371 and 18 9861 of dried potatoes not further prepared (Eurostat, 2005). Frozen potato products account for more than 61% of all potatoes that are processed, crisps for... 

British Potato Council. (2007). FAO, NEPG, BPCMarket Information Statistics. 

Figure 15.9 System boundaries of the Life Cycle Assessment of potato starch based packaging. (Reprinted from Murphy et al., 2004, with permission from British Potato Council, UK).

It also appears that traditional forms of food processing may not be as safe as expected. The example of the formation of acrylamide in different heat-processed foods may be cited (see Chapter 13 of this volume). However, there are no incontrovertible answers to the questions is acrylamide in food harmful for consumers , and what is the average intake The American Council on Science and Health states that there is no credible evidence that acrylamide in foods poses human cancer risk. New Zealand food safety experts, using a no observable adverse effect level for acrylamide of 0.1 mg per kg bodyweight, also estimate that people eating fried potatos and crisps (products suspected to contain the largest amounts of acrylamide) are a very low risk of cancer from this source. European Union experts decided that the risk of exposure to polyacrylamide in food remains undetermined (Sharp, 2003). 

Table 1.4 shows that in 1997, more insecticides were applied to control insects in cotton and corn than other crops. Insecticide use on potatoes, other vegetables, apples, and citrus remained approximately constant between 1980 and 1997 (National Research Council, 2000). From Table 1.5, it is seen that in 1998, we heavily used organophosphate insecticides for controlling termites, livestock pests, and mosquitoes. Organophosphate insecticides have been one of the most important classes of insecticides used for protecting crops, livestock, and human health over the past 60 years. 

Satoll. G.T. and Plapp, F.W, Jr (1993). Use of juvenoids for management of Cotton aphids and sweet-potato whitelly populations. In Proceedings 1993 Beltwide Cotton Conferences. National Cotton Council, Memphis, TtV... 

Zande, JC van de, M van IJzendoom and R. Meier, 2000. The effect of air assistance, dose and spray interval on late blight control Phytophthora infestans in potatoes. BCPC Conference - Pests and Diseases 2000, Brighton 13-16 November 2000, British Crop Protection Council, Farnham, UK. 

The student council meeting turned into a near riot. The argument on the day s agenda was whether or not the school should allow fast food and soft drinks to be sold in the cafeteria. One viewpoint was that soft drinks and potato chips were fine but French fries weren t. Another position held that soft drinks were really bad, and presented a detailed deposition from a medical expert about the harm these drinks can cause. Mediation seemed necessary, but who should be the arbiter of food policy The students or the school district s administration Should a referendum to all concerned parties, including parents, be offered Surely someone had to provide amnesty to the warring parties. 

Volmer et al. studied phenylureas and sulfonylureas by TSP-LC-MS after sample concentration by Cjg SPE [175]. 15 phenylurea- and 1 thiourea pesticides besides 112 polar pesticides from other pesticide classes were examined by TSP ionisation, detection limits and TSP mass spectra of these polar compounds were presented [245], Besides other polar pesticides, the phenylurea pesticides isoproturon and diuron were on-line concentrated on a precolumn from several surface and drinking water samples and then determined by TSP-LC-MS [247]. A multi-residue TSP-LC-MS method was published by Moore et al. for the determination of the urea pesticides chlortoluron, diuron, isoproturon, and Unuron in water samples after Cig-SPE [248]. Ci8 Empore disks were applied to concentrate phenylureas from river water and spiked seawater samples prior to TSP-LC-MS. Detection limits of 2-20 (ig L and recoveries between 80 and 125% were observed [239]. TSP-LC-MS (SIM) in the positive mode allowed determination of the urea pesticides chlor-bromuron, diuron, linuron, metobromuron, monuron, neburon in apples, beans, lettuce, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes with detection limits of 0.025-1 ppm [255]. 20 other polar pesticides, linuron, which was under suspicion of being a dietary oncogenic risk (US Natl. Res. Council) was determined by TSP-LC-MS a single rapid procedure in vegetables with detection limits of 0.05-0.10 ppm [270]. TSP-LC-MS and ESI were used in a multi-residue method for determination of the sul-... 

Commission of the European Communities. Report from the Commission to the Council on the Quota System for the Production of Potato Starch, Brussels COM December 19, 2006, p 827. 

On 1 July 1997 a new organisation, the Potato Industry Development Council, was formed to take over some of the activities of the old PMB. It is now called the Potato Cormdl, is part of the Agricirltirral arrd Hortieultural Development Board arrd its objeetives are to ... 

The main areas of development for the Council and the industry are to increase the environmentally sustainable production of ware and seed potatoes and to increase potato quality to meet end-user requirements. Projects currently funded by them include the improvement of input precision and the reduction of production costs, the improvement of understanding of the factors affecting eating quality and the Fight Against Blight (FAB) campaign. 

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