Tracing the Costs and Benefits of Improvements in Food Safety

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英文名称：

Tracing the Costs and Benefits of Improvements in Food Safety

作者：

Elise Golan; Stephen Vogel; Paul Frenzen; Katherine Ralston

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=41191

关键词：

costs;  benefits;  Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP);  food safety; 

年份：

2000

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

35 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

The level and distribution of the costs and benefits of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulatory program for meat and poultry change dramatically once economywide effects are included in the analysis. Using a Social Accounting Matrix Model, we find that reduced premature deaths had a strong positive effect on household income, with economywide benefits almost double initial benefits. Contrary to expectations, reduced medical expenses resulted in a decrease in household income, while HACCP costs resulted in an increase. Net economywide benefits were slightly larger than initial net benefits, with poor households receiving a proportionally smaller share of the increased benefits than nonpoor because of their weak ties to the economy. Our SAM analysis provides policymakers useful information about who ultimately benefits from reduced foodborne illnesses and who ultimately pays the costs of food safety regulation. This analysis also sheds light on a number of issues central to cost-benefit analysis involving health, highlighting the danger of equating changes in income with changes in well-being.