There has been a great deal of recent growth in the area of private food quality standards. This article analyses the … incentives for setting private quality standards before governments do so. Since food quality standards are generally … regulation by setting their own private food quality standards in order to choose the type of standards that minimises their …

"This collection focuses on new generations of international standards and regulations in the agro-food sector and on …

highly disaggregated import data to the EU in the food industry. Results show that, on average, the diffusion of EU voluntary …