Food Retailers as Drivers for Food Safety Standards

Selection of Food Safety Standards

This paper examines performance versus process standards modeling the variability of industry-level compliance and therefore food safety. Monte Carlo simulations are conducted manipulating four factors: the variances of input use of efficient and inefficient firms, the proportion of inefficient firms in the industry and the policymakers' level of risk aversion. Results suggest that process stan...

Food Safety: Setting and Enforcing Standards

In December 2001, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas district court decision blocking the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from closing a beef processing plant that had failed a series of Salmonella tests. This court ruling is the latest development in the evolution of food safety policy for meats and poultry. Over the last decade, the federal government has ad...

Food Safety Accounting: As a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach in Iran

Codex Alimentarius: food quality and safety standards for international trade.

Since 1962, the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) of the Food and Agriculture Organisation/World Health Organisation has been responsible for developing standards, guidelines and other recommendations on the quality and safety of food to protect the health of consumers and to ensure fair practices in food trade. The mission of the CAC remains relevant, but a number of factors have shown the n...

Food for thought ... On food safety testing.

More than any other consumer product range, food represents an emotional issue with a strong cultural dimension. In a eurobarometer survey of 2002, 89% of the europeans interviewed considered food safety to be very important; interestingly 80% considered animal welfare to be very important in the same survey. Food also has an enormous economic impact on society, with the european food and drink...