Increasing Food-Safety Protection: Fresh Apple Markets in China

Lili Gao and Suzanne Thornsbury

Journal of Food Distribution Research, 2008, vol. 39, issue 01, 6

Abstract: Food-safety concerns have a highly visible impact on current U.S.-China agricultural trade. Initial concerns over melamine in imported pet and animal feed have spread to other products, and traditional made-in-China “cheap” goods are drawing great safety attention from U.S. customers and regulators. At the same time, China has raised concerns over U.S. products as diverse as orange pulp, health supplements, and pistachio nuts. Ultimately, the impact of food-safety regulation will be determined not only by regulatory content but also by administrative and structural characteristics of supply chains. This paper uses fresh apple markets in China as an example to illustrate the complexity of managing interactions among these three factors.

Keywords: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/55611/files/Gao.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:jlofdr:55611

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.55611

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Food Distribution Research from Food Distribution Research Society Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().