Food Safety Costs for Farms Vary Across Commodities Due to Differences in Farm Size

Peyton Ferrier

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2018, vol. September 2018, issue 08

Abstract: An ERS study estimated farm-level costs to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act's Produce Rule by commodity, State, and farm size. Costs ranged from as little as 0.3 percent of annual produce sales for the largest farms and 6.8 percent for the smallest.

Keywords: Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Health Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.302649

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