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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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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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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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Optimal choice of Voluntary traceability as a food risk management tool

Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.; Caswell, Julie A. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

Traceability systems are information tools implemented within and between firms in food chains to improve logistics and … traceability in terms of precision of information on a given attribute at each link of a food chain. The results suggest that four … total food safety damages: no traceability, traceability for one link, equal traceability for all links, or different …

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Can an Industry Voluntary Agreement on Food Traceability Minimize the Cost of Food Safety Incidents?

McEvoy, David M.; Souza Monteiro, Diogo M. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008

. Traceability can be an effective tool to reduce the impact of food safety incidents my expediting the search for the origin of … outbreaks. This paper investigates to what extent an industry-led voluntary agreement for providing traceability can reduce the … cost of a food-safety outbreak. We find that a voluntary agreement on traceability can successfully reduce the cost of a …

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How consumers link traceability to food quality and safety: An international investigation

van Rijswijk, Wendy; Frewer, Lynn J. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2006

It is not yet understood whether the implementation of traceability systems can contribute towards restoring consumer … perceive the role and potential impact of traceability within the supply chain. This paper aims to provide insight into how … traceability information can offer guarantees of food quality and safety, and contribute towards increased consumer confidence …

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