SABIIA - Sistema Aberto e Integrado de Informação em Agricultura (Sabiia)

Jones, Eluned; Poghosyan, Arsen; Gonzalez-Diaz, Francisco; Bolotova, Yuliya.

In the 21st century, the food supply chain has become a complex, interconnected system with strategies that are aimed at creating improved products to satisfy consumers' demand for safer foods. To stay competitive and ensure consumer confidence, agribusiness firms develop and implement strategies that take into account not only traditional economic factors driving the food demand, but also issues such as food safety and quality. Traceability and assurance protocols help agribusiness companies improve and refine their production processes, thus providing better control over, and transparency of, food quality and safety throughout the food supply chain. This paper reports on the empirical results of focus interviews conducted during the 2004 IAMA conference...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Food; Safety; Quality; Traceability; Assurance; Agribusiness; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8154

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC FOOD SAFETY CONTROL MECHANISMS: INTERDEPENDENCE AND EFFECTIVENESS

Mojduszka, Eliza M..

In this paper, we propose new research methods and approaches in the area of food safety economics that would improve the allocation and effectiveness of private and public resources and efforts in ensuring food safety. The focus is on approaches that would build a comprehensive understanding of the interdependence between private and public food safety control mechanisms, including direct regulation by process and performance safety standards, traceability requirements, product liability, and product liability insurance; contribute to the development and analysis of loss control functions related to food safety hazards and to the assessment of the insurability of agricultural producers and food processors from such risks; as well as evaluate the impact of...

A Methodological Framework to Design and Assess Food Traceability Systems

Palavras-chave: Food safety control mechanisms; Food safety recall insurance; Product liability; Traceability; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Q130; L110; L150.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19987

Bendaoud, Mhamed; Lecomte, Catherine; Yannou, Bernard.

The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review is published quarterly by IFAMA. www.ifama.org

Tipo: Article

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Food tracing; Food safety; Performance system; Information system; Environmental Economics and Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Productivity Analysis; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Risk and Uncertainty; L66; Q.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/120861

An American BSE Crisis: Has it affected the Value of Traceability and Country-of-Origin Certifications for US and Canadian Beef?

Ward, Ruby A.; Bailey, DeeVon; Jensen, Robert T..

With a BSE incident in the United States (US) in December of 2003, questions arose about the effect of the incident on consumers in the US. The purpose of this paper is to determine if traceability systems for beef can help preserve consumer demand following the discovery of BSE. Auctions were conducted approximately 3 weeks before and after the December 2003 BSE incident in the U.S It was found that overall there was no effect on the size of the bribes needed by the BSE incidence. However, for some groups there were important changes. The results indicate that information about traceability and country of origin is valuable to consumers. They also suggest that greater uncertainty about certifications and assurances for beef existed among the participants...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: BSE; Traceability; Country-of-origin; Beef market; Auctions; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/8160

Can an Industry Voluntary Agreement on Food Traceability Minimize the Cost of Food Safety Incidents?

McEvoy, David M.; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M..

In the recent past the United States has had a number of severe food-safety outbreaks in the produce, vegetable and beef industry that greatly disrupted the food system. In all these outbreaks here were severe disruptions on sales that affected the whole industry, and it took an extended period of time to correctly locate the source of the outbreak. Traceability can be an effective tool to reduce the impact of food safety incidents my expediting the search for the origin of outbreaks. This paper investigates to what extent an industry-led voluntary agreement for providing traceability can reduce the cost of a food-safety outbreak. We find that a voluntary agreement on traceability can successfully reduce the cost of a food-safety outbreak but will unlikely...

CONTRACTING STRATEGIES FOR EU TRACEABILITY REQUIREMENTS

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Voluntary agreements; Food safety; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43860

Wilson, William W.; Dahl, Bruce L..

A principal-agent problem was specified to define the equilibrium solution of a contracting strategy for a U.S. supplier exporting wheat to meet EU traceability requirements. The buyer (principal) offers a contract, the supplier (agent) accepts the contract, and then the supplier decides whether to offer a contract to the farmer. Nature at each level of the supply chain represents uncertainty due to adventitious commingling and imperfect information. Results indicate farmers would require 9 c/bu and suppliers 8 c/bu to induce their participation in the contracting strategy.

Effects of a Traceability System on the Economic Impacts of a Foot-and-Mouth Disease Outbreak

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Principal-Agent; Contracting; Genetically Modified; Wheat; European Union; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23535

Jones, Jason; Carlberg, Jared G.; Pendell, Dustin L..

The research reported in this paper created an epidemiological foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) spread model for Ontario. Disease simulations were constructed to reflect three levels of the cattle identification and movement recording system. Outputs generated by the epidemiological model are used to calculate the direct disease control costs of a FMD outbreak. Welfare effects caused by a FMD outbreak are also calculated for each level of cattle traceability using an equilibrium displacement model. Parameter sensitivity was tested for both the epidemiological and economic model results. It is found that the benefits to the beef cattle industry of increasing the ability to trace direct animal contacts during a FMD disease outbreak in Ontario are less than the...

Linking Animal-Health-Related Information to an Integrated-Animal-Health System

Palavras-chave: NAADSM; Disease spread model; Equilibrium displacement model; Traceability; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98781

Fick, Johanna; Doluschitz, Reiner.

EU-regulation (EG) 178/2002 and the EU hygiene package have fixed general principles and requirements for the food law. Some of these principles and requirements are related to the issues of traceability and quality assurance along the agro-food-chains and affect all participants of the supply value chain. This paper focuses on the implementation of these requirements to the livestock farmer and veterinarian segment of the supply value chain. Livestock farmers and veterinarians are responsible for animal health, which is one of the key features of quality assurance. Furthermore, both groups already document information related to animal health. Often, the documentation is comprehensive and at times redundant, and is accomplished manually. Currently, an...

Consumer preferences and labelling: an empirical analysis of the beef sector in Italy

Palavras-chave: IT-based animal-health system; Traceability; Quality assurance; Agro-food-chain; Livestock production; Integrated IT-solution; Livestock Production/Industries.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6580

Banterle, Alessandro; Stanieri, S..

Within the framework of European food safety measures, Reg. 1760/2000 and 1825/2000 have introduced mandatory traceability and relevant labeling into the beef sector. The paper analyses whether information on meat labels can be considered a useful instrument for consumers, facilitating the verification of quality. The purpose of the paper is, first, to evaluate if meat information is used during food purchase. Second, focusing on specific meat information, we assess the interest of consumer for some mandatory and voluntary information cues and identify the determinants affecting the use of them. Data were collected by a survey conducted in the Lombardy, region of the northern Italy, and employed a telephone questionnaire. The sample is composed by 1,025...

The Economics of Traceability for Multi-Ingredient Products: A Network Approach

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Meat; Consumer preferences; Logit; Demand and Price Analysis.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43547

Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.; Caswell, Julie A..

The consumption of multi-ingredient foods is increasing across the globe as consumers spend less time preparing meals. Traceability is now extensively used to reduce information imperfections in food markets and recent EU law suggests it will be implemented for manufactured meals as well. We present a model developed to understand how information on different ingredients flows through supply chains for multi-ingredient food products. The network model has three tiers linked by contracts for levels of quality and information. The model is useful for analyzing tradeoffs and network effects emerging in the choice of traceability levels.

MEAT TRACEABILITY AND CONSUMER ASSURANCE IN JAPAN

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Multi-ingredient foods; Network models; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19143

Clemens, Roxanne.

Japanese consumers are sophisticated, highly conscious of food quality and safety, and willing to pay for attributes they believe define a high-quality, safe product. A recent series of domestic and international food safety crises have elevated the importance of meat safety among Japanese consumers. The Japanese government and food industry are implementing new policies and systems intended to assure consumers that the food supply is safe and wholesome. Given that these systems tend to focus heavily on consumer assurance programs and traceability, this paper examines the demand for such programs from the perspective of Japanese meat importers, processors, and retailers. The paper discusses Japan's recent history of food safety crises, some of the consumer...

TRACEABILITY, TRADE AND COOL: LESSONS FROM THE EU MEAT AND POULTRY INDUSTRY

Palavras-chave: Consumer assurance programs; Food safety; Japan; Product differentiation; Red meat exports; Traceability; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Relations/Trade.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18711

Buhr, Brian L..

The traditional food supply chain is arranged as a complex array of producers, handlers, processors, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. As the food supply chain grew in complexity over time, little emphasis was placed on reserving information regarding the origin of raw materials and their transformation, often by multiple handlers, into consumer ready products. This paper provides case illustrations of the implementation of information systems for support of traceability in Europe. Emphasis is on the firm level costs and benefits as well as the broader market structure and governance issues inherent in information economics of the firm.

O SISTEMA AGRÍCOLA DE PRODUÇÃO INTEGRADA E O SISTEMA DE INFORMAÇÃO

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Economics of the firm; Information systems; Internet; Food supply chain; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Relations/Trade; Livestock Production/Industries.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14577

Raschiatore, Ricardo Alexandre; Souza, Maria Tereza Saraiva de; Pereira, Raquel da Silva.

This article introduces the Integrated Agricultural Production System – IAPS - focusing mainly on the role of information systems necessary for its implementation, as well as the impact it will have for the sustainable development and health quality of the food, produced and offered. Some aspects as traceability and identification, sustainable agriculture, information integration, Codex Alimentarius, among others are all considered. Bibliographical and documental researches were conducted in academic data banks and also participation in international congresses and seminars related to the theme. The conclusions indicate the importance of IAPS’s development in Brazil, as well as the difficulties of developing and implementing this system. It was also...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Sustainable agriculture; Fruit growing; Integrated agricultural production system; Traceability; Codex Alimentarius..

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43702

Does traceability play a role in retailer’s strategies for private labels?

Banterle, Alessandro; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.; Stranieri, Stefanella.

Traceability is helping retailers manage food safety risks and support product differentiation. This paper aims to investigate how traceability may be used to screen supplier for private labels dedicated provider pools. Retailers in the UK and Italy have several private label product lines and increasingly select dedicated suppliers. The choice of providers is a typical agency problem as retailers contract the production for their private labels, having incomplete information on types and effort of their suppliers. Different contracts must be designed for suppliers of private labels depending on position of the product line and its food safety risk. A case study, based on the second largest Italian retailer reveals that traceability and quality assurance...

Use of Simulation Models to Study the Dynamic of Recall of Non-Conform Perishable Produce through the Supply Chain

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Dedicated providers; Food products; Retailing; Vertical coordination; Marketing; Q13; Q18; L81; L66; L15.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50933

Busato, Patrizia; Berruto, Remigio.

The traceability allows, for each product, to sketch the manufacturing process through a system documentary, enabling to identify the operational structures involved, the products and the lots, to define the flows of production, packaging and distribution. There are researches that investigate the traceability within the firm, but little work has been carried out on the investigation of the traceability system over the whole supply chain. The supply-chain of fresh produce is constituted of many links: producer/grower, warehouse, packing centre, distribution centre, retailers and finally the consumer. Each of these is a system itself that interacts with the other components of the supply-chain. The non-conformity could occurs in each of these links. Because...

Traceability, Trust and Coordination in a Food Chain

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Logistics; Dynamic simulation; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Risk and Uncertainty.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/59196

Charlier, Christophe; Valceschini, Egizio.

In response to sanitary crisis, risk management has become a central issue for food producers and distributors in Europe. Organisational responses to sanitary risks usually implying traceability have been conceived by firms. One of the main tasks here is to deal with coordination of the different operators of a food chain. The European Union has developed a regulatory framework with the Regulation 178/2002. This regulation sets a mandatory traceability considered as a risk management tool. Traceability that was considered as a private initiative has therefore become an obligation with this regulation. This paper tries to evaluate if the problem of the operators coordination on specific traceability practices that any private organisational of a food chain...

WHY CAN'T U.S. BEEF COMPETE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION?

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Risk management; Food safety; Agribusiness; Industrial Organization; I18; K32; Q18..

Ano: 2006

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7718

Clemens, Roxanne; Babcock, Bruce A..

The stringent guidelines for producing, harvesting, and shipping certified non-hormone treated beef for the European Union create additional costs that greatly reduce the competitiveness of U.S. beef. What had once been a large market for beef variety meats and then a niche market for non-treated beef has all but vanished because the E.U. hormone ban and regulations for producing and certifying non-treated beef have made U.S. product too expensive to export. Some producers continue to obtain U.S. Department of Agriculture certification for their non-hormone treated beef, but most are selling their fully traceable, certified cattle into the domestic natural beef market at no additional premium compared with cattle verified as non-treated via a...

Traceability and Demand Sensitiveness: Evidences from Italian Fresh Potatoes Consumption

Palavras-chave: Beef hormone ban; E.U. enlargement; Natural beef; NHTC program; Non-hormone treated beef; Retaliatory tariffs; Traceability; International Relations/Trade.

Ano: 2002

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18712

Caracciolo, Francesco; Cembalo, Luigi.

When a traceability system takes place, either when mandatory or voluntary, many questions arise that need to be addressed and answered. One of the firsts concerns whether it introduces new costs with no gain in efficiency or, on the contrary, the system efficiency increases lowering costs and, as a consequence, market price of the good in hand. Among others, another issue that only rarely is addressed regards the effect of a price change on the final market. The objective of this paper was to simulate the effect on fresh Italian vegetables market of prices change due to a newer traceability procedure, focusing on early potato. Reasons why early potato was the main object of our study will be explained in detail later in the paper. Moreover, this study...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Traceability; Early potato; Censored demand system estimation; Sample selection approach.; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/101287

Traceability Adoption by Specialty Crop Producers in California

Stuller, Zachary J.; Rickard, Bradley J..

Surveys were sent to specialty crop producers in California, predominantly grower-packer-shippers, during the first half of 2006 to better understand the motives for traceability adoption. The questions in our survey allowed respondents to consider the benefits of tracing. A representative tracing system for melons was developed and costs for the system were collected from industry sources. Values were assigned to the benefits of traceability based on the cost of the representative system, responses collected in our survey, and using Borda’s rule. Results suggest that litigation concerns and firm reputation are the key drivers for maintaining traceability.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Borda’s rule; California; Partial budget; Specialty crops; Survey; Traceability; Agribusiness; Crop Production/Industries.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/90637

A Study of the Factors that Influence Consumer Attitudes Toward Beef Products Using the Conjoint Market Analysis Tool

Mennecke, Brian; Townsend, Anthony M.; Hayes, Dermot J.; Lonergan, Steven.

This study utilizes an analysis technique commonly used in marketing, the conjoint method, to examine the relative utilities of a set of beef steak characteristics considered by a national sample of 1,432 U.S. consumers, as well as additional localized samples representing undergraduate students at a business college and in an animal science department. The analyses indicate that among all respondents, region of origin is by far the most important characteristic; this is followed by animal breed, traceability, the animal feed used, and beef quality. Alternatively, the cost of cut, farm ownership, the non-use of growth promoters, and whether the product is guaranteed tender were the least important factors. Results for animal science undergraduates are...