Safe vegetables are vegetables that promote health and are free of chemical and microbiological hazards. Safe vegetable value chains (SVVCs) include all of the linked actors extending from input providers to local farmers to marketers selling to consumers who seek safe vegetables as part of their routine diet. The SVVC also needs to function within the landscape of local and national policies. The
re are certainly dynamic elements to these value chain linkages that can be enhanced through the introduction of hard technologies that, when properly used, result in improved safe vegetable production and postharvest practices through distribution of products to consumers --- such technologies and practices comply with Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) thereby setting the stage for robust Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) policies.