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Economics of Food Safety by David M. Smallwood, James R. Blaylock (auth.), Julie A. Caswell (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Public concern about the safety and healthfulness of the food supply grew markedly during the 1980s. Numerous government, academic, interest group, and media reports questioning the adequacy of the food safety regulatory system formed the basis for this increase in concern. While public concern focused most directly on pesticide residues in food, scientists emphasized the risks of illness associated with microbiological contamination of food. Much additional attention was focused on the food supply as a result of the striking consensus on dietary recommendations that emerged in the late 1980s based on increased scientific knowledge of linkages between diet and health. Relatively little research on the economic aspects of food safety and nutrition issues had been conducted up to the mid-1980s. These aspects are complex. On the consumer demand side, they include consumers' perceptions of the risks associated with particular food products, how demographic characteristics influence consumers' processing of risk information and subsequent changes in food demand behavior, and the monetary value consumers might place on changes in the risk profiles of products. The economic benefits and c

Who reads Economics of Food Safety?

Author

David M. Smallwood, James R. Blaylock (auth.), Julie A. Caswell (eds.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9789401170789

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Sociology, Science