Sanitary and phytosanitary standards: Does consumers’ health protection justify developing countries’ producers’ exclusion?

Standards sanitaires et phytosanitaires: la protection de la santé des consommateurs justifie-t-elle l’exclusion des producteurs des pays en développement ?

Cristina Grazia, Abdelhakim Hammoudi () and Oualid Hamza
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Cristina Grazia: Agricultural Economics and Engineering Department - UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna = University of Bologna
Abdelhakim Hammoudi: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Oualid Hamza: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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Abstract: The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects public regulatory tools for food safety, notably maximum admitted contamination thresholds and official controls performed at importing country's borders on both developing countries' market access and consumers' health. An Industrial Economics approach is developed that endogenizes the sanitary risk associated with imports by explicitly taking into account the interaction between the public regulatory tools and the strategic response of producers/exporters. Producers' strategic reaction is shown to crucially depend on the characteristics of the economic environment. Moreover, a regulatory reinforcement may exacerbate producers/exporters exclusion without improving consumers' health protection.

Keywords: consumers’ health; official border controls; maximum admitted contamination thresholds; producers/ exporters’ exclusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Published in Revue d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement - Review of agricultural and environmental studies, 2012, 93 (2), pp.145-170

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