TY - JOUR
T1 - Ensuring food safety and quality in farm-level production
T2 - Emerging lessons from the pork industry
AU - Unnevehr, L. J.
AU - Miller, G. Y.
AU - Gomez, M. I.
N1 - Funding Information:
Support for this research was provided by the Illinois Council on Food and Agricultural Research.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Several trends bring greater demand for farm-level quality assurance. Consumer demand for specific product attributes and reliable product quality and safety is growing. This trend, together with increased public regulation or legal liability for food processors and retailers, creates derived demand for quality assurance in farm production. At the same time, expanded international trade in processed-food products brings a need for quality assurance that can be widely recognized. Yet basic questions about farm-level quality assurance remain unanswered. What measures are needed to ensure food safety in farm-level production? What kind of institutions can most efficiently certify safety and quality assurance? Will improved quality increase demand for some products, and who will capture those gains? Is there a public role to facilitate the markets for quality and safety? This article will explore these questions by reviewing economics of quality and safety assurance at the farm level, examples of institutional innovation that are currently underway in the U.S. pork industry, and implications of potential efforts to control microbial pathogens on farms.
AB - Several trends bring greater demand for farm-level quality assurance. Consumer demand for specific product attributes and reliable product quality and safety is growing. This trend, together with increased public regulation or legal liability for food processors and retailers, creates derived demand for quality assurance in farm production. At the same time, expanded international trade in processed-food products brings a need for quality assurance that can be widely recognized. Yet basic questions about farm-level quality assurance remain unanswered. What measures are needed to ensure food safety in farm-level production? What kind of institutions can most efficiently certify safety and quality assurance? Will improved quality increase demand for some products, and who will capture those gains? Is there a public role to facilitate the markets for quality and safety? This article will explore these questions by reviewing economics of quality and safety assurance at the farm level, examples of institutional innovation that are currently underway in the U.S. pork industry, and implications of potential efforts to control microbial pathogens on farms.
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U2 - 10.2307/1244090
DO - 10.2307/1244090
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0033503954
SN - 0002-9092
VL - 81
SP - 1096
EP - 1101
JO - American Journal of Agricultural Economics
JF - American Journal of Agricultural Economics
IS - 5
ER -