The Use of Time-Series Analysis in Examining Food Safety Issues: The Case of the Peanut Butter Recall

Rafael Bakhtavoryan, Oral Capps, Victoria Salin () and Aramayis Dallakyan

Journal of Food Distribution Research, 2018, vol. 49, issue 2

Abstract: This study presents a time-series analysis of the demand for peanut butter in the wake of the product recall involving Peter Pan and Great Value brands. A 2-lag directed acyclic graphs/Bernanke vector error correction model was estimated using weekly time-series data. The outbreak variable was negatively related to the demand for peanut butter, supporting the hypothesis that foodborne illness reduces consumer demand for a food product category. Hence, time-series models should be complementary to structural/econometric models in examining the impacts of food safety incidents as a check on the robustness of the results.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.292176

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