Food safety recall effects across meat products and regions

Xia Shang and Glynn Tonsor

Food Policy, 2017, vol. 69, issue C, 145-153

Abstract: Food safety is one of the key issues for the international meat market. As a major meat exporter, few things facing the U.S. meat industry in recent years have garnered more attention than food safety events and policies. The impacts of Food Safety Inspection Services (FSIS) recalls on United States consumer meat demand are estimated using monthly grocery-scanner data identifying effects across products, geographic regions, and recall type. Results suggest beef E. coli recalls significantly reduce the demand for recalled ground beef contemporaneously among most, but not all, regions in the United States. Evidence of heterogeneity in demand impacts across regions and products is provided for the first time. Domestic and international implications for policy makers, industry leaders, and researchers are discussed.

Keywords: E. coli; FSIS recall; Food safety; Meat demand; Regional differences; Rotterdam model; Scanner data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q11 Q13 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.04.002

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