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Including growers in the “food safety” conversation: enhancing the design and implementation of food safety programming based on farm and marketing needs of fresh fruit and vegetab...

Parker, Jason; Wilson, Robyn; LeJeune, Jeffrey; Doohan, … - In: Agriculture and Human Values 29 (2012) 3, pp. 303-319

Experts identified water quality, manure, good handling practices (including personal hygiene and equipment sanitation), and traceability as critical farm problem areas that, if addressed, are likely to decrease risk associated with microbial contamination of fresh produce from all scales of...

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Resilience in the US red meat industry: the roles of food safety policy

Worosz, Michelle; Knight, Andrew; Harris, Craig - In: Agriculture and Human Values 25 (2008) 2, pp. 187-191

We use the case of red meat food safety to illustrate the need to problematize policy. Overtime, there have been …, create superficial resilience, and are used in place of an actual policy governing safety. We call for rigorous attention to … policy more broadly. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 …

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Explaining disparities in food safety compliance by food stores: does community matter?

Pothukuchi, Kameshwari; Mohamed, Rayman; Gebben, David - In: Agriculture and Human Values 25 (2008) 3, pp. 319-332

This paper provides a conceptual framework to explain why disparities may exist in food safety code compliance by food stores in different neighborhoods. Explanations include market dynamics, community characteristics, retailer attributes, inspector characteristics, and enforcement approaches,...

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The SPS Agreement: Addressing historical factors in trade dispute resolution

Kastner, Justin; Powell, Douglas - In: Agriculture and Human Values 19 (2002) 4, pp. 283-292

The World Trade Organization Agreement on the Application of Sanitary andPhytosanitary Measures (the SPS Agreement) isa product of international efforts to blendtrade liberalization with standards of publichealth protection. One of the aims of theAgreement is to facilitate the pre-emption...

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Seven samurai to protect “our” food: the reform of the food safety regulatory system in Japan after the BSE crisis of 2001

Tanaka, Keiko - In: Agriculture and Human Values 25 (2008) 4, pp. 567-580

,” “bandits,” and “beneficiaries” are used to show that in the process of policy making certain moral and ethical expectations on …

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Can public GAP standards reduce agricultural pesticide use? The case of fruit and vegetable farming in northern Thailand

Schreinemachers, Pepijn; Schad, Iven; Tipraqsa, Prasnee; … - In: Agriculture and Human Values 29 (2012) 4, pp. 519-529

In response to the chronic overuse and misuse of pesticides in agriculture, governments in Southeast Asia have sought to improve food safety by introducing public standards of good agricultural practices (GAP). Using quantitative farm-level data from an intensive horticultural production system...

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Bans, tests, and alchemy: Food safety regulation and the Uganda fish export industry

Ponte, Stefano - In: Agriculture and Human Values 24 (2007) 2, pp. 179-193

Contemporary regulation of food safety incorporates principles of quality management and systemic performance objectives that used to characterize private standards. Conversely, private standards are covering ground that used to be the realm of regulation. The nature of the two is becoming...

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The illusion of control: industrialized agriculture, nature, and food safety

Stuart, Diana - In: Agriculture and Human Values 25 (2008) 2, pp. 177-181

I explore the role of nature in the agrifood system and how attempts to fit food production into a large-scale manufacturing model has lead to widespread outbreaks of food borne illness. I illustrate how industrial processing of leafy greens is related to the outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7...

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Is HACCP Nothing? A Disjoint Constitution between Inspectors, Processors, and Consumers and the Cider Industry in Michigan

Eyck, Toby; Thede, Donna; Bode, Gerd; Bourquin, Leslie - In: Agriculture and Human Values 23 (2006) 2, pp. 205-214

The transmission of a product or idea from one culture or point of origin to another and the maintenance of control outside the new locality has been referred to as the distribution and maintenance of “nothing.” This perspective has been used to describe the global marketplace and the...

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Matters of scale and the politics of the Food Safety Modernization Act

Hassanein, Neva - In: Agriculture and Human Values 28 (2011) 4, pp. 577-581

industrial agriculture. I conclude by suggesting some research and policy questions that could be explored more fully, both with …

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