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Food Safety

Increased concern over foodborne disease has encouraged additional government regulation as well as additional investments by industry in new technologies and manufacturing procedures. ERS analyses include examining public and private incentives for food safety, estimating the societal costs of human foodborne disease, and estimating the impact of regulatory options on firms in domestic and international markets.


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Food Safety and International Trade: Research Briefs—Expanding food trade has brought into sharper relief the divergence among countries' food safety regulations and standards. This set of research briefs presents some of the highlights of the ERS report, "International Trade and Food Safety: Economic Theory and Case Studies."

Foodborne Illness Cost Calculator—This interactive web-based tool allows users to estimate the cost of foodborne disease, using a variety of assumptions about the costs of treating foodborne illness, the value of lost productivity and premature death, and the number of cases of disease.

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