attempts to exploit traceability for value-added initiatives. …

Global standards for animal identification and traceability are evolving rapidly. Major world animal health, trade, and … traceability system development. Advanced animal traceability systems have been deployed by major beef exporters and are … in a vulnerable position relative to competing export countries with respect to demonstrated animal traceability. This …

With a BSE incident in the United States (US) in December of 2003, questions arose about the effect of the incident on … consumers in the US. The purpose of this paper is to determine if traceability systems for beef can help preserve consumer … demand following the discovery of BSE. Auctions were conducted approximately 3 weeks before and after the December 2003 BSE …

beef, domestic dairy beef, Australian beef, and US beef when considering their bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) test … safety conscious Japanese consumers. Moreover, the WTP for each BSE-tested type of beef reveals that the Japanese consumers … seem to regard the BSE test to be very important for ensuring the food safety of beef. …

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States. A conditional, fixed-effects logit model was estimated using … period prior to the BSE event, there is a statistically significant and negative effect after the event. The findings from …

Japanese beef, Canadian and Danish pork, and Brazilian and Thai poultry have a competitive advantage in Japan. The BSE outbreak … from the U.S. and Australia, Danish pork, and South Korean and Thai poultry have a competitive advantage. The U.S. BSE …

used to assess the time-varying impact of a resurgent BSE crisis (1996 and 2000) and the 1999 Dioxin crisis. The impact of … the first BSE crisis on preferences seems to be reabsorbed after a few months. The second wave of the scare at the end of …

has been affected by the BSE and dioxin scares over the last decade. …