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Title

Toward safer food : perspectives on risk and priority setting / edited by Sandra A. Hoffmann, Michael R. Taylor.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Resources for the Future, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Hoffmann, Sandra A.
• Taylor, Michael R.

Description

xiv, 319 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

An integrated, risk based food safety system is the essential scientific basis for better priority setting. However, there has been little advance about how to integrate knowledge about food safety risks into a system wide risk analysis framework. This book begins to answer this need by bringing together leading scientists, risk analysts, and economists, as well as experienced regulators and policy analysts. It includes a multidisciplinary introduction to the existing data, research, and methodological and conceptual approaches on which a system wide risk analysis framework must draw. It also recognizes that efforts to improve food safety will be influenced by institutional contexts. Intended to be accessible to people from a wide variety of backgrounds, the book retains the conceptual sophistication needed to understand the challenges that are inherent in improving food safety.

Subject

• Food > Safety measures
• Food Inspection > legislation & jurisprudence
• Food Inspection > standards
• Food adulteration and inspection
• Government Regulation
• Risk Management

Note

• "An RFF Press book"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Getting to risk-based food safety regulatory management: lessons from federal environmental policy / Sandra A. Hoffmann -- The centennial of U.S. food safety law: a legal and administrative history / Richard A. Merrill -- Linking illnesses to foods: a conceptual framework / Robert V. Tauxe -- Where are potential chemical hazards in the U.S. food supply? / Penelope A. Fenner-Crisp -- The current state of play: federal and state expenditures on food safety / Lawrence J. Dyckman -- Industry costs to make food safe: now and under a risk-based system / Laurian J. Unnevehr and Helen H. Jensen -- The value to consumers of reducing foodborne risks / Elise Golan, Jean Buzby, Stephen Crutchfield, Paul D. Frenzen, Fred Kuchler, Katherine Ralston, and Tanya Roberts -- New developments in chemical and microbial risk assessment / Robert Buchanan and Bart Suhre -- Best things first: rethinking priority setting for food safety policy / Peter Nelson and Alan J. Krupnick -- Judgment-based risk ranking for food safety / Michael L. DeKay, Paul S. Fischbeck, H. Keith Florig, M. Granger Morgan, Kara M. Morgan, Baruch Fischhoff, and Karen E. Jenni -- Quality-adjusted life years: application to food safety priority setting / Milton C. Weinstein -- Willingness-to-pay measures of food safety regulatory benefits / James K. Hammitt -- Opportunities for risk reduction: a public health perspective / J. Glenn Morris, Jr. -- Opportunities for risk reduction: an economist's perspective / Julie A. Caswell -- Toward an integrated, risk-based food safety system: constructing the analytical tools / Michael R. Taylor -- Appendix: Responsibilities of federal agencies involved with food safety.

ISBN

• 1891853899 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1891853902 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004014237

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library