the moment, the risk of damage is very likely owing to intensive food production, use of innovative solutions that may introduce risks of contamination and outsourcing to unreliable providers; these aspects make the need of preventing and mitigating these phenomena compelling. To this end, modeling and simulation (M&S) based approaches can provide a valuable support at all levels of the supply chain management to seek for countermeasures and find best practices. As a matter of facts, simulation allows facing the complexity inherent in logistic processes of food procurement, production, and distribution through a comprehensive approach where a
variety of factors such as traceability, transport/storage conditions, variability of demand, and recalling of products in case of contaminations can be taken into account simultaneously.