Benefits of reverse logistics application in the food industry

This article provides a state of the art approach to reverse logistics and its applications in the food industry, highlighting favorable results, benefits and application tools. The food industry uses organic and non-organic materials as packaging material it also places products close to the end of their useful life, products that due to breaches of quality specifications were not able to complete their life cycle or there was simply an apathy by the client. All these products are susceptible to reverse logistics models for execution and optimization.
The methodology of this article is documentary since it uses research from various sources, such as articles in virtual magazines, thesis papers, sources from national organizations. (INEGI, PROMEXICO, Secretary of Economy) sources of international organizations such as FDA (Food and Drug Administration).