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Assessing the potential impact of strengthening food safety regulations on developing countries: The US Food Safety and Modernization Act
Mosquera, Mauricio; Evans, Edward A.; Walters, Lurleen M.; … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2012
This paper’s goal is to assess the extent to which producers in Developing Countries have coped stricter US food safety regulations. We approach the question by calculating refusals/imports ratios and their trends for a sample of Developing Countries. We conclude there is a learning process in...
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The Impact of Non-tariff Barriers on Trade: The Gravity Model on Turkish Agri-Food Products
Asci, Serhat; Koc, A. Ali; Erdem, M. Sukru - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
The competition between the U.S. and the E.U. agricultural subsidies during 1980s decreased the world prices in agricultural and food markets but caused an extensive distortion in the international trade of agricultural and food products. Under these circumstances, World Trade Organization (WTO)...
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Was Food Safety Declining?: Assessing the Justification for the US Food Safety Modernisation Act
Nakuja, Tekuni; Kerr, William A. - Canadian Agricultural Trade Policy Research Network (CATPRN) - 2013
Food safety regulations limit trade in bioproducts. Every country, however, has a duty to protect its citizens from food safety hazards. If risks are increasing under an existing food safety system then a strengthening of the regulatory regime can be justified, with the inevitable negative...
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Consumer Demand for Quality: Major Determinant for Agricultural and Food Trade in the Future?
Caswell, Julie; Joseph, Siny - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2007
The impact of consumer demand for quality on the agricultural and food system is an increased emphasis on quality differentiation but not all in the direction of upgrading quality. The more elite market segments are thriving and reaching growing numbers of consumers but the basic price/quality...
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The Impact of Food Safety Third-Party Certifications on China’s Food Exports to the United States
Zheng, Yuqing; Muth, Mary; Brophy, Jenna - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
In this paper, we empirically examine the relationship between food safety TPC on a country’s food exports to the United States using data for 2010. We developed a modified gravity model to account for the role TPC plays in facilitating international food trade. we found that a 10% increase in...
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FOOD SAFETY: ECONOMIC THEORY AND CASE STUDIES
Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2003
Food safety regulations and the perception of risk are different among countries. This can lead to persistent trade frictions and even reduce food trade. These differences may also lead to increased dialogue between countries, with improved food safety systems the result. Although little...
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Effects of Food Safety Standards on Seafood Exports to US, EU and Japan
Nguyen, Anh Van Thi; Wilson, Norbert L.W. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2009
Estimating the panel gravity model with bilateral pair and country-by-time fixed-effects separately for each seafood 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...
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Do Inspection and Traceability Provide Incentives for Food Safety?
Starbird, S. Andrew; Amanor-Boadu, Vincent - In: Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 31 (2006) 01
One of the goals of inspection and traceability is to motivate suppliers to deliver safer food. The ability of these …
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TRACEABILITY IN THE U.S. FOOD SUPPLY: ECONOMIC THEORY AND INDUSTRY STUDIES
Golan, Elise H.; Krissoff, Barry; Kuchler, Fred; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2004
This investigation into the traceability baseline in the United States finds that private sector food firms have … developed a substantial capacity to trace. Traceability systems are a tool to help firms manage the flow of inputs and products … benefits of traceability to determine the efficient level of traceability. In cases of market failure, where the private sector …
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A Methodological Framework to Design and Assess Food Traceability Systems
Bendaoud, Mhamed; Lecomte, Catherine; Yannou, Bernard - In: International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 15 (2012) 1
The International Food and Agribusiness Management Review is published quarterly by IFAMA. www.ifama.org
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