Food Safety Economics
Incentives for a Safer Food Supply
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Beschreibung
This book examines the economic incentives for food safety in the private marketplace and how public actions have helped shape those incentives. Noted contributors analyze alternative public health protection efforts and the benefits and costs associated with these actions to understand:
- why an excess of foodborne illness occurs
- what policies have worked best
- how regulations have evolved
- what the path forward to better control of pathogens in the U.S. and the international food supply chain might look like
While the first third of the book builds an economic framework, the remaining chapters apply economics to specific food safety issues. Numerous chapters explore economic decision making within individual companies, revealing the trade-offs of the costs of food safety systems to comply with regulations, vs. non-compliance which carries costs of possible penalties, reputation damage,legal liability suits, and sales reduction. Pathogen control costs are examined in both the short run and long run.
The book's unique application of economic theory to food safety decision making in both the public and private sectors makes it a key resource for food safety professionals in academia, government, industry, and consumer groups around the world. In addition to Benefit/Cost Analysis and economic incentives, other economic concepts are applied to food safety supply chains, such as, principal-agent theory and the economics of information. Authors provide real world examples, from Farm-to-Fork, to showcase these economic concepts throughout the book.
Examines the economic incentives for food safety in the private marketplace and how public actions have helped shape those incentives
Explores economic decision making within individual companies to understand the tradeoffs of the costs of food safety systems to comply with regulations
Applies economic theory to food safety decision making in both the public and private sectors
Examines the economic incentives for food safety in the private marketplace and how public actions have helped shape those incentives Explores economic decision making within individual companies to understand the tradeoffs of the costs of food safety systems to comply with regulations Applies economic theory to food safety decision making in both the public and private sectors
Autor*in
Tanya Roberts
Themen in »Food Safety Economics«
economics of information food safety cost of illness public health policy benefit/cost analysis
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Details
ISBN: 9783319921389
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Erscheinung: 21.12.2018