Food-safety regulations

From John Bovay March 29th, 2021

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This presentation on food-safety regulations covers the Food Safety Modernization Act, meat and poultry inspections, and economic analysis of the benefits of, and incentives created by, food-safety regulations.

Presented by Dr. John Bovay, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech.

Part of the Virginia Sustainable Farms and Agribusiness Education Initiative webinar series -- module 5: Legal risks and social responsibility. Please visit https://aaec.vt.edu/extension/va-sustainable-farms-agribusinesses.html for more information about the entire program. The Virginia Sustainable Farms and Agribusiness Education Initiative is supported by USDA/NIFA under Award Number 2018-70027-28585.

References:

Bovay, J., and D.A. Sumner. 2018. “Economic Effects of the U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1093/aepp/ppx039

Ollinger, M., J. Guthrie, and J. Bovay. 2014. “The Food Safety Performance of Ground Beef Suppliers to the National School Lunch Program.” Economic Research Report Number 180, Economic Research Service, USDA. https: //www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/45326/50382_err180.pdf

Ferrier, P., C. Zhen, and J. Bovay. “Price and Welfare Effects of the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule.” Working paper, 2021.
Bovay, J., P. Ferrier, and C. Zhen. “Estimated Costs for Fruit and Vegetable Producers To Comply With the Food Safety Modernization Act’s Produce Rule.” https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/89749/eib-195.pdf.
Winfree, J.A., and J.J. McCluskey. 2005. “Collective reputation and quality.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 87:206–213. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0002- 9092.2005.00712.x
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􏰀 Scallan, E., Hoekstra, R.M., Angulo, F.J., Tauxe, R.V., Widdowson, M.A., Roy, S.L., Jones, J.L. and Griffin, P.M., 2011. Foodborne illness acquired in the United States—major pathogens. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17(1), 7–15. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21192848/
􏰀 Scallan, E., Griffin, P.M., Angulo, F.J., Tauxe, R.V. and Hoekstra, R.M., 2011. Foodborne illness acquired in the United States—unspecified agents. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17(1), 16–22. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204615/
Hoffmann, Sandra Ann, Bryan Maculloch, and Michael Batz. 2015. Economic burden of major foodborne illnesses acquired in the United States. Economic Information Bulletin No. 140, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service. https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/62095/PDF
Painter, John A, Robert M Hoekstra, Tracy Ayers, Robert V Tauxe, Christopher R Braden, Frederick J Angulo, and Patricia M Griffin. 2013. Attribution of foodborne illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths to food commodities by using outbreak data, United States, 1998?2008. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 19(3): 407–415.https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/3/11-1866_article
- 􏰀 Ollinger, Michael, and John Bovay. 2020. Producer response to public disclosure of food-safety information. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 102(1): 202–219. https://drive.google.com/file/d/ 17Y0mrTv9e1IDtDqngC46S33l2ggbUwGs/view
  􏰀 Bovay, John. 2020. Moral hazard under discrete information disclosure: Evidence from food-safety inspections. Working paper, https: //www.aeaweb.org/conference/2021/preliminary/paper/2F7QZa8h

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