Food safety is a global problem with a large impact on human health and a high level of priority for governments. Supply chain traceability is key to enable food safety, since it allows problems to be traced to their source. Moreover, it allows regulatory agencies to understand where risk enters...

This paper illustrates how supply chain (SC) analytics could provide strategic and operational insights to inform risk-based allocation of regulatory resources in food SCs, for management of food safety and adulteration risks. The paper leverages a massive, self-constructed dataset of food...

Food adulteration poses a serious threat to public health. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a major role in maintaining food safety in the U.S. through various activities including sampling of imported shipments and site inspections. However, resource constraints limit the number...

Government regulations have a substantial impact on food safety, both within China and elsewhere in the world. But regulatory research is hampered by a lack of systematic data. Much of the extant regulatory research is based on interpretations of government policy and regulatory announcements....

Motivated by emerging applications in workforce management, we consider a class of revenue management problems in systems with reusable resources. The corresponding applications are modeled using the well-known loss network systems. We use an extremely simple linear program (LP) that provides an...