Food Safety Economics

Part 1.- Food Safety Applied Economics: Economic Incentives in Regulations and in the Private Sector.- Overview of Food Safety Economics.- Information Is the Basic Problem for Economic Incentives.- Supply Chain Control, Principal-Agent Theory, and International Challenges HACCP Implementation, Economic Incentives, and Benefit/Cost Analysis: U.S. Meat and Poultry.- Economic Impact of Posting Restaurant Ratings: UK and US Experience.- Part II. Economics of Foodborne Illness Metrics: When to Use What.- Overview of Estimates and Use by Private Companies and Public Policy Analysis - Robert Scharff, Arie Havelaa.- Burden of Disease for Cost Effectiveness Analysis.- Cost of Illness and DALY Methods and Applications.- Identification of Acute Foodborne Illnesses and Their Long Term Health Outcomes.- Part III Case Studies in Applied Food Safety Economics.- Economic Incentives of Product Testing: U.S. Beef.- Surveillance of Campylobacter in New Zealand.- Outbreak Consequences: Sweden's Salmonella Testing from Farm to Fork.- Economics of Antibiotic Use in Swine and Poultry Production.- The Role of Surveillance in Regulations and in Promoting Economics Incentives.- Economic Incentives for Capacity Building in Food Safet.- Pathogen Information and Supply Chain Performance: Costs and Benefits.- Legal Liabilty Changes for Food Safety in the United States and Selected Countries.- The Challenges and Promise of GFSI in International Markets.- Part IV.The Future of International Food Safety: Economic Incentives, Risks, GFSI, WTO, and Country Regulations.