Journal
EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 121-142Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbs006
Keywords
food safety; product recall; reputation; traceability; D21; Q10; Q18
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- Agricultural Marketing Research Center
- Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
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Sometimes, authorities are unable to rapidly identify the origin of a tainted product. In such cases, recalls or warnings often apply to all suppliers, even to those that had not contributed to the contamination. Traceability enables more targeted recalls by identifying the products origin more specifically. In this article, we show how increased traceability protects the reputation of industries by limiting the size of recalls. We show the relationships between traceability and the level of food safety with many identical small farms in a competitive industry and for an industry using collective action to set rules and standards.
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