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Within sustainable production, produce quality and safety are essential features. However, methods, requirements, conditions and even legislation for produce quality and safety in production in rural areas cannot always be directly transferred to production in urban areas and on rooftops. This chapter describes features of produce quality, produce safety and safety hazards in urban rooftop farming employing various technological solutions and serving various purposes in different climate zones. Sustainability is discussed in terms of product quality and safety, and requirements to resolve the principal issues are presented.

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This chapter was partly supported by the project “African urban agriculture : Environmental, social and economic challenges and prospects under changing global and demographic realities”, funded by the Swedish research council Formas, which is gratefully acknowledged.

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    Beatrix W. Alsanius, Andrea Kosiba Held & Lars Mogren

  2. Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, V0M 1A0, Agassiz, BC, Canada

    Martine Dorais

  3. Department of Plant Science and Crop protection, University of Nairobi, P.O. Box 29053-00625, Nairobi, Kenya

    Cecilia Moraa Onyango

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Alsanius, B.W., Held, A.K., Dorais, M., Onyango, C.M., Mogren, L. (2017). Produce Quality and Safety. In: Orsini, F., Dubbeling, M., de Zeeuw, H., Gianquinto, G. (eds) Rooftop Urban Agriculture. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57720-3_12

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