Economic Cost of Major Foodborne Illnesses Increased $2 Billion From 2013 to 2018

Sandra Hoffmann and Jae-Wan Ahn

Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2021, vol. 2021, issue 04

Abstract: Foodborne illnesses from different pathogens (bacteria, viruses, and parasites) cause a variety of health effects, ranging from a few days of diarrhea to more serious outcomes such as kidney failure, cognitive impairment, and even death. Since the mid-1990s, the USDA, Economic Research Service (ERS) has estimated the economic cost of 15 major foodborne illnesses. Monetary measures of these health effects provide a common metric to compare impacts of various pathogens, a way to aggregate impacts across illnesses, and a means of comparing the costs of experiencing those illnesses with the costs of preventing them.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Financial Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.310387

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