A system for monitoring perishable goods including: a storage device to store perishable good requirements, producer inputs, safety alerts, consumer parameters, and historical quality parameters associated with the perishable goods; a risk management system coupled to the storage device. The risk management system including: a quality determination module to determine quality levels of the perishable goods in response to at least one of the historical quality parameters and perishable good requirements; a risk determination module to determine risk levels of the perishable goods in response to at least one of the historical quality parameters, perishable good requirements, producer inputs, consumer parameters, and safety alerts; and a meshing module to determine output parameters in response to at least one of the quality levels and the risk levels.