2002 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists

The globalization of food markets has triggered ongoing efforts to develop fair-trading rules that will promote the safety of internationally traded foods. The search for widely accepted international safety standards has focused attention on food safety systems maintained by countries around the world – and has revealed the shortcomings of many of these systems for providing a basis for regulating international trade. In this paper we review a number of fundamental food safety principles (for example, those involving risk analysis and precaution, the choice of process versus performance standards, and the determination of liability when consumers are harmed by contaminated foods or industries suffer because of food safety problems) and provide an economic framework for evaluating the efficacy and efficiency of each approach in the international marketplace.



	Paper Title:	Food Safety Principles: Setting Standards For International Trade
	Presenting Author:	Elise Golan (U.S. D.A. ERS)
	Coauthor 1:	Fred Krutchler
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	Abstract:	The globalization of food markets has triggered ongoing efforts to develop fair-trading rules that will promote the safety of internationally traded foods. The search for widely accepted international safety standards has focused attention on food safety systems maintained by countries around the world – and has revealed the shortcomings of many of these systems for providing a basis for regulating international trade. In this paper we review a number of fundamental food safety principles (for example, those involving risk analysis and precaution, the choice of process versus performance standards, and the determination of liability when consumers are harmed by contaminated foods or industries suffer because of food safety problems) and provide an economic framework for evaluating the efficacy and efficiency of each approach in the international marketplace.
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	Session / Day / Time	4H / Monday / 4:30 - 6:00 pm

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