bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease, found in the spring of 2003, but it did help speed and lend …

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 …

attempts to exploit traceability for value-added initiatives. …

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 …

This study examines farm to wholesale prices spreads to measure the impact of the BSE disease outbreak on the Canadian … of the UK BSE disease outbreak, and the Canadian BSE disease outbreak was simply the largest realignment of the process … beginning with the UK disease outbreak. However, the only statistically significant break was the BSE disease outbreak itself in …

considered as the most determinant factors of the survival of the Spanish consumers facing the BSE crisis while other … beef consumption reduction indicating a quite homogenous reaction among Spanish consumers to BSE crisis. These results …