Food Safety Improvements Underway in China

Linda Calvin, Gale, H. Frederick,, Dinghuan Hu and Bryan Lohmar

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2006, 6

Abstract: Adverse publicity about contaminated food exports and growing domestic concerns have prompted China to improve overall food safety. Producing safer food for export is expensive and reduces China’s cost advantage. Only a small portion of Chinese production for the domestic market meets the new government standards for safer food.

Keywords: Food; Consumption/Nutrition/Food; Safety (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.125655

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