Highlights
Direct and Indirect Costs of Food Safety Regulation—The compliance costs of the Pathogen Reduction Hazard Analysis Critical Control Program rule have been controversial. This article addresses weaknesses in earlier evaluations of compliance costs based on limited data by examining these costs with data from a national survey of meat and poultry plants. Results indicate that (1) regulation favors large, more specialized plants over small, diversified ones; (2) private actions incur considerable costs, and (3) with the exception of chicken slaughter, Federally mandated processing tasks are 160-500 per cent more costly than allowing plants to choose their own food safety technology to meet standards. See Ollinger, Michael and Danna Moore. “The Direct and Indirect Costs of Food Safety Regulation.” Review of Agricultural Economics 31 (2):247-65 (Summer 2009).
Economic Cost of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in the United States—Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is a rare but serious form of temporary paralysis that is triggered by certain infections, including foodborne illness due to Campylobacter jejuni. ERS estimated the annual economic cost of illness due to GBS from all causes to be $1.7 billion (in 2004 dollars), based on data from a national hospital survey, a telephone survey of adult GBS patients, and other sources. The proportion of GBS cases caused by Campylobacter infections is uncertain, but might be as high as 40 percent. See Frenzen, Paul. “Economic Cost of Guillain-Barre Syndrome in the United States,” Neurology, 71:14-20 (March 2008).
Recent Articles
Nguyen, Sang and Michael Ollinger. “Mergers and Acquisitions, Employment, Wages and Plant Closures in the U.S. Meat Product Industries.” Agribusiness: An International Journal 70(1):70-89 (Winter 2009).
Ollinger, Michael, and Danna L. Moore. “The Economic Forces Driving Food Safety Quality in Meat and Poultry,” Review of Agricultural Economics 30 (2):289-310 (Summer 2008).
Roberts, Tanya. “WTP Estimates of the Societal Costs of U.S. Foodborne Illness,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89 (4):11838-8 (December 2007).
Frenzen, Paul D. “Hospital Admissions for Guillain-Barré Syndrome in the United States, 1993-2004,” Neuroepidemiology 29 (1):83-88. (November 2007).
Ollinger, Michael, and Danna L. Moore. “Approaches to Examining HACCP Costs and Food Safety Performance and Technologies,” Agribusiness: An International Journal 23 (2):193-210 (Spring 2007).
Jones, Timothy F., Marcy B. McMillian, Elaine Scallan, Paul D. Frenzen, Alicia B. Cronquist, Stepy Thomas, and Frederick J. Angulo. “Population-Based Estimate of the Substantial Burden of Diarrhoeal Disease in the United States FoodNet, 1996-2003,” Epidemiology and Infection 135 (2):293-301 (February 2007).
Scallan, Elaine, Timothy Jones, Alicia Cronquist, Stepy Thomas, Paul D. Frenzen, Dina Hoefer, Carlota Medus, Frederick Angulo, and the FoodNet Working Group. “Factors Associated with Seeking Medical Care and Submitting a Stool Sample in Estimating the Burden of Foodborne Illness,” Foodborne Pathogens and Disease 3(4):432-38 (December 2006).
Nguyen, Sang and Michael Ollinger. “Mergers and Acquisitions and Productivity in the U.S. Meat Products Industries: Evidence from Microdata,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88(3):606-16 (August 2006).
Buzby, Jean C. and Lorraine Mitchell. “Private, National, and International Standards Raise the Bar for Food Safety,” Journal of Food Distribution Research, 37 (1):1-6 (March 2006).
Hoefer, Dina, Shauna Malone, Paul D. Frenzen, Ruthanne Marcus, Elaine Scallan, and Shelley Zansky. “Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of the Use of Irradiated Meat Among Respondents to the FoodNet Population Survey in Connecticut and New York.” Journal of Food Protection 69:2441-46 (October 2006).
Frenzen, Paul D., Alison Drake, Frederick J. Angulo, and the FoodNet Working Group. “Economic Cost of Illness Due to Escherichia coli O157 Infections in the United States,” Journal of Food Protection 68 (12):2623-30 (December 2005).
Frenzen, Paul D. “Mortality Due to Gastroenteritis of Unknown Etiology in the United States.” Journal of Infectious Diseases 187:441-52 (February 2003).
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