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The lack of a reliably safe food supply in developing countries imposes major costs on both public health and market performance. This paper addresses the question of whether and why food processing firms voluntarily invest in food safety in the absence of effective regulatory enforcement. Using...
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Food safety and the trade-off between precaution and increased agricultural exports are at the forefront of policy debate. Moreover, how international standards are set for food safety, can have a profound effect on export prospects for the least developed countries. This study examines the...
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The objective of this paper is to identify strategies to reduce aflatoxin contamination of groundnuts in Ghana in order to enable the development of competitive and safe groundnut-based value-adding enterprises. We examine the quality assur-ance institutions with oversight on the groundnut value...
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Aflatoxins are a naturally occurring carcinogenic byproduct of common fungi on grains and other crops, particularly … maize and groundnuts. They pose a significant public health risk in many tropical developing countries and are also a … reduce the detrimental impacts of aflatoxins? Because growth of the molds that produce aflatoxins is caused by multiple …
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