This paper’s goal is to assess the extent to which producers in Developing Countries have coped stricter US food safety …

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 …

Results from continuous tracking of consumer confidence and media coverage of food safety events over a 67 week period … food safety events affects consumer confidence in the safety of the U.S. food system. The results show that media coverage … significantly and negatively affected consumer confidence in the safety of nation’s food supply during the sample period …

Food safety issues often arise from problems of asymmetric information between consumers and suppliers of food with … regards to product-specific attributes or characteristics. Food safety concerns in China are having a drastic impact on … consumer behavior, commodity markets, international trade and food security. An additional challenge to the problem of …

Consumer expenditures on purchases of food away from home have risen in recent years to nearly half of consumer food …

vitamins, minerals, and other beneficial substances for a balanced diet. However, numerous recent food outbreaks associated …, consumers tend to substitute affected outbreak products with other fruits and vegetables. The potential impact of food borne … of food borne illness in the fresh produce industry using three case studies, spinach, cantaloupes, and tomatoes. …

product, we found that food safety regulations have differential effects across seafood products. In all three industrialized … markets, shrimp is most sensitive, while fish is the least sensitive to changing food safety policies. The enforcement of the … US HACCP, the EU Minimum Required Performance Level and the Japanese Food Safety Basic Law caused a loss of 90.45%, 99 …

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 …