 NATIONWIDE ADOPTION OF THE CALIFORNIA _SOLIDS STANDARDS FOR FLUID MILK PRODUCTS: ISSUES AND IMPACTSNational Economics Division No 277637, Staff Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Abstract: Nationwide adoption of standards similar to the current California standards for fluid milk products would result in increased retail prices for fluid milk products of about 3.5 cents per half gallon (3 percent). The change in standards would generally increase the nutrient content of milk and have positive nutritional benefits for most Americans. The new standards could cause problems for groups with special dietary concerns and would cost an estimated $5.9 million annually to effectively enforce. Adoption of higher standards could result in somewhat increased sales of butterfat and solidsnot- fat in fluid milk products but the magnitude is unclear. In addition, the new standards likely would result in only a small reduction in purchases of dairy products by the Government in surplus periods. While there appear to be some sound arguments both for and against raising the solids standards for fluid milk products nationwide, there still are many unsolved issues. Keywords: Demand and Price Analysis; Livestock Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uerssr:277637 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Staff Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC. |
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