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

Xiong, Bo; Beghin, John C..

Replaced with revised version of paper 07/02/10.

COSTS OF IMPROVING FOOD SAFETY IN THE MEAT SECTOR

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Standards; Aflatoxin; Maximum Residues Limit; Groundnut; Gravity equation; Africa; Market access; EU; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Crop Production/Industries; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Q17; F13.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61314

Jensen, Helen H.; Unnevehr, Laurian J.; Gomez, Miguel I..

Recently enacted food safety regulations require processors to meet product standards for microbial contamination in meat products. An analysis of the cost-effectiveness of several technological interventions for microbial control in beef and pork processing shows that marginal improvements in food safety can be obtained, but at increasing costs. The additional food safety intervention costs represent about 1% of total processing costs for beef and pork. Some interventions and combinations are more cost-effective than others.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Meat processing; Regulation; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 1998

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15090

Do Consumers Trust the National Inspection Exemption Brands? Evidence from Infant Formula in China

Jin, Yanhong H.; Lin, Liguo; Yao, Lan.

Consumers are often uncertain about product quality and have to rely on different information, either given or pursued, to assess quality. Developing countries may lack institutional and technical resources to rigorously monitor and enforce product quality standards and/or to implement market-based instruments where market failures are common. The information-based instruments on product quality may work well in these countries as they reduce information asymmetry between firms and consumers. This study investigates one particular information-based instrument, the National Inspection Exemption (NIE) system in China. China launched the National Inspection Exemption (NIE) System in various industries in 2000 to award firms who are in compliance with the...

Imports From China and Food Safety Issues

Palavras-chave: Brand choice; Food safety; Product quality; National inspection exemption; Quality standards; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Institutional and Behavioral Economics.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103766

Gale, H. Frederick, Jr.; Buzby, Jean C..

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) increased attention to food imports from China is an indicator of safety concerns as imported food becomes more common in the United States. U.S. food imports from China more than tripled in value between 2001 and 2008. Addressing safety risks associated with these imports is difficult because of the vast array of products from China, China’s weak enforcement of food safety standards, its heavy use of agricultural chemicals, and its considerable environmental pollution. FDA import refusal data highlight food safety problems that appear to recur in trade and where FDA has focused its import alerts and monitoring efforts. FDA refusals of food shipments from China suggest recurring problems with “filth,” unsafe...

Tipo: Report

Palavras-chave: China; Food imports; Food safety; U.S. Food and Drug Administration; FDA; Misbranding; Labeling; Refusals; Shipment; Violation.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Relations/Trade.

Ano: 2009

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/58620

An Analysis of Food Safety Events on Consumers’ Confidence and Consumers Attitude towards Preparedness of U.S. Food System

Hill, Jessica I.; Bharad, Abhishek Bhagwat; Harrison, R. Wes; Kinsey, Jean D.; Degeneffe, Dennis J..

Every year hundreds of food recalls are made due to contamination. The main focus of this paper is to examine the effects of specific food events on consumers’ confidence in food safety as well as their preparedness regarding the United States food system. The food events studied in this are major food-borne illnesses outbreaks and recalls that have occurred since May 2008. The three events chosen included: the salmonella outbreak in jalapeno and Serrano peppers occurring in 2008, the salmonella outbreak in peanut butter occurring in 2009, and the E.coli outbreak in Nestle cookie dough occurring in 2009. An ordered probit model was used to measure the effects that these specific foodborne illnesses had on consumers’ confidence. The results revealed that...

Tipo: Presentation

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Food system; Food recalls; Ordered probit; Consumer confidence; Consumer attitudes; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123174

Industry-mandated testing to improve food safety: the new US marketing order for pistachios

Brunke, Henrich; Alston, Julian M.; Gray, Richard S.; Sumner, Daniel A..

Food safety shocks can threaten the health of consumers, create havoc within an industry and result in severe losses to producers. Governments often attempt to aid food safety by mandating standards and inspection of food products to supplement the efforts by private firms and industries. This article assesses a form of collective action that falls between typical government mandates and purely private action. The California pistachio industry recently established a U.S. federal marketing order, which sets quality standards and inspection to reduce the likelihood of dangerous or poor quality pistachios. Simulation results indicate that, across the full range of parameters used in the analysis, the benefit-cost analysis was always favorable to the new...

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Food scare; Collective action; Marketing orders; Pistachios; Public good; Food regulations; Cost-benefit analysis; Agribusiness; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/97502

Chapter 01: VALUING FOOD SAFETY AND NUTRITION: THE RESEARCH NEEDS

van Ravenswaay, Eileen O..

This book was originally published by Westview Press, Boulder CO, 1995.

Tipo: Book Chapter

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Nutrition; Valuation; Health production; Health maintenance; Market failure; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 1995

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25976

Consumer Purchasing Behavior in Response to Media Coverage of Avian Influenza

Beach, Robert H.; Zhen, Chen.

Understanding consumer response to food safety information is important for quantifying consumer response to food safety events, predicting market impacts, and developing appropriate risk communication strategies. In this study, we present a methodology for analysis of consumer response to media coverage of avian influenza and an application using Italian data.

Consumer Food Safety Perceptions: Do they Differ across Products, Species, and Specific Risks?

Palavras-chave: Avian influenza; Food safety; Italy; Meat demand; Media index; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Q11; Q18.

Ano: 2008

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6750

Tonsor, Glynn T..

No known research has directly evaluated the relationship between perceived risk on a particular food safety issue and perceptions of other risks (e.g., H1N1 perceptions and E-Coli O157:H7 perceptions). Similarly, no known study has evaluated the appropriateness of assuming perceived food safety risks are equivalent for all products of a given species (i.e., perceived risk of E-Coli O157:H7 in ground beef and beef steak). The focus of this working paper is to shed new light on these previously unevaluated issues and draw implications for future mitigation strategies regarding meat food safety risks.

MEAT TRACEABILITY AND CONSUMER ASSURANCE IN JAPAN

Palavras-chave: Beef; Consumer perceptions; Food safety; Pork; Risk perceptions; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2010

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61044

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...

Securite Sanitaire Des Aliments: Fausse Alerte Et Vraie Crise

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

Cahuzac, Eric; Hassan, Daniel; Monier-Dilhan, Sylvette.

These last years, a fall in consumer's confidence in food safety encouraged false alerts which sometimes led to actual crisis. This paper studies a crisis due to an alert concerning a risk of listeria on a raw milk camembert brand. The investigation relies on individual data. Two results of risk economy are confirmed. Firstly, information has asymmetric effects, according its positive or negative aspects. Secondly, punctual alerts have only temporary effects on consumption. In this crisis, education and consumer's habits did not pay any role.

Retailer-led Regulation of Food Safety : Back to Spot Markets?

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Information; Risk; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2007

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9439

Giraud-Heraud, Eric; Hammoudi, Abdelhakim; Soler, Louis-Georges.

At the end of the 1990s European retailers had significantly contributed to restructuring fresh agricultural product food chains (meat, fruit and vegetables), and had turned away from spot markets in order to create their own supply chains, based on private technical requirements and verification systems usually managed from within the firm. However, over the last few years a second type of system has appeared, as the range of standards adopted by retailers has been broadened to include generic standards common to several retailers. A telling example of this new approach is provided by the EUREPGAP protocol. In this paper we propose a theoretical analysis of this new procedure and its possible impacts.

FOOD SAFETY RISK PERCEPTION AND CONSUMER CHOICE OF SPECIALTY MEATS

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Spot markets; Retailer; Supply chain; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2005

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24544

Nganje, William E.; Kaitibie, Simeon.

Consumer perception issues and recent microbial outbreaks in the livestock industry continue to stifle demand for specialty meats in the United States. This study was designed to explore impacts of risk perception issues on consumer choice of bison meat. A stated preference discrete choice random utility model, a joint risk perception/product choice model, and a probability of frequency method to aggregating risk scenarios, were used for a range of food safety/certification regimes. Perceived risk reduces bison consumption, but its effect declines with shifts to more regulatory control inherent in the different certification regimes.

Quality Perceptions and Willingness-to-Pay for Imported Rice in Japan

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Bison; Specialty meat; Nested logit model; Risk perception; Product choice; Discrete choice experiment; Probability of frequency method; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries.

Ano: 2003

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23606

Peterson, Hikaru Hanawa; Yoshida, Kentaro.

Attitudes of Japanese consumers toward domestic and foreign varieties of rice were analyzed on the basis of a survey. We found that the current retail prices for imported rice are higher than the average consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP), whereas most domestic rice was priced below the average WTP. Unfamiliarity or negative perceptions of the safety and flavor of foreign rice lowered WTP substantially. The WTP for U.S. rice was limited more by negative perceptions of flavor than from concerns about food safety.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Choice experiment; Food safety; Japan; Quality perceptions; Ride; U.S. export; Willingness-to-pay; Q13.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42941

New institutional arrangements and standard adoption: Evidence from small-scale fruit and vegetable farmers in Thailand

Sarah, Kersting; Meike, Wollni.

This paper presents an analysis of GlobalGAP adoption by small-scale fruit and vegetable farmers in Thailand focusing on GlobalGAP group certification, the costs and perceived benefits of GlobalGAP adoption, and the factors influencing standard adoption. GlobalGAP is the most important private standard for producers in the Thai horticultural sector concerning access to high-value markets, especially to Europe. We find that support by donors, exporters and public-private partnerships is vital to enable small-scale farmers to adopt the standard. GlobalGAP group certification encourages the formation of new institutional arrangements between farmers, exporters and donors. In our sample only participants from a development program were successful in adopting...

Tipo: Presentation

Palavras-chave: Private standards; Food safety; GlobalGAP adoption; New institutional arrangements; Small-scale farmers; Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Farm Management; International Development; Marketing.

Ano: 2012

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123537

Understanding U.S. Consumer Demand for Milk Production Attributes

Wolf, Christopher A.; Tonsor, Glynn T.; Olynk, Nicole J..

A choice experiment was used to examine the value of various fluid milk attributes. Respondents were surveyed regarding half or whole gallon milk purchases. A split-sample design was used to examine consumer inferences regarding food safety. Willingness to pay for verification of production process attributes varied across attributes and verifying entity. Consumers were generally willing to pay substantial premiums for milk produced without the use of rbST, on local family farms, with assured food safety enhancement, and for these claims to be verified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Tipo: Journal Article

Palavras-chave: Milk; Food safety; Grazing; RbST; Family farm; Local; Willingness to pay; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2011

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/117186

Consumer Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Food Safety in Portugal

Ventura-Lucas, Maria Raquel.

The recent food crises and its great diffusion through the media had as consequence a reduction of the European consumer's confidence, in general, and of the Portuguese ones in particular, in the products that they buy and consume. These events also served to disclose some of the existing problems in the current marketing chain, in which many sectors result to have low, or no transparency or unknown ones to the consumers. For moreover, these crises had demonstrated that science and technology, in set with the governmental regulation do not offer guarantees that the risks associated with food have acceptable levels. All these questions triggered the interest of researchers to study the impact of food safety related issues on consumer behaviour. The...

Survey of Kentucky Beef Producer Perspectives on Food Safety

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Consumer behaviour; Perceptions; Attitudes; Portugal; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety.

Ano: 2004

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24986

Burdine, Kenneth H.; Ernst, Matthew; Meyer, Lee; Woods, Timothy A..

In order to evaluate farmer perceptions of food safety as they relate to the beef industry, a survey was conducted among Kentucky beef cattle producers. The goal of the survey was to determine the extent to which beef producers felt their practices could affect the safety of the food supply.

APPROACHES TO MEASURING CONSUMER BENEFITS FROM FOOD SAFETY

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing.

Ano: 2001

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42309

van Ravenswaay, Eileen O.; Hoehn, John P..

The FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act and the Exemption for Small Firms

Palavras-chave: Food safety; Consumer benefits; Cost/benefit analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty.

Ano: 1997

URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25941

Pouliot, Sebastien.

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 is new legislation that mandates, among other things, new food safety standards. The act includes a clause that exempts small firms from new regulatory requirements. This paper investigates the effects of a small firm exemption from more stringent food safety standards. The model compares food safety, total output and the number of market participants for different food safety regulation with and without an exemption for small firms. The numerical examples show that a more stringent food safety regulation increases food safety, increases the price of food, decreases the total output and decreases the number of firms. A new food safety standard with an exemption for small firms increases the average food safety...