Food Safety: Recommended Data

Overview Economic Costs of Foodborne Illnesses Private Market Mechanisms and Government Regulation Consumer Demand and the Value of Safe Food Labeling and Traceability Food Safety and International Trade Recommended Readings Recommended Data Recent Research Developments Related Links

The Interplay of Regulation and Marketing Incentives in Providing Food Safety

Foodborne Illness Cost Calculator—ERS estimates of the costs of foodborne illness have been used in regulatory cost-benefit and impact analyses such as the assessment of the HACCP program. The Foodborne Illness Cost Calculator allows users to change the assumptions made by ERS about the number of illnesses, medical costs, and lost productivity due to Salmonella or STEC O157 infections, and then re-estimate the costs.

The Hamburger Doneness and Consumer Preference data—These data provide information from two 1996 national survey modules on consumer doneness choices, cooking methods, attitudes toward foodborne illness and sensory characteristics of hamburgers, and food safety information sources.

Food Safety Technologies and HACCP Compliance Survey—Two data sets contain the responses by 861 meat slaughter and processing plant operators and 135 poultry slaughter and processing plant managers to over 60 questions in a 2001 questionnaire on the cost of the Pathogen Reduction Hazard Analysis Critical Control Program (PR/HACCP) rule and food safety technology use in the meat and poultry industries.