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| Unnevehr, Laurian J.; Jensen, Helen H.. |
| Current policies designed to improve food safety rely on regulation and market incentives. However, the mix of both private and public incentives to improve food safety and the dynamics of industry response to regulation make analysis of the costs of food safety complex. The paper provides an overview of costs of food safety regulation and control in recent literature for both pesticide and microbial controls and draws lessons for identifying cost-effective food safety approaches. Four lessons emerge concerning industry compliance costs. First, the distribution of costs is likely to be more important than market price effects. Second, regulation has an impact on long-run incentives to invest in new technologies or inputs and therefore may bias the nature... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Economic costs of food safety; Food safety; Regulation; Risk assessment; Industrial Organization. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18559 |
