Do EU Member States Apply Food Standards Uniformly? A Look at Fruit and Vegetable Safety Notifications

Tudela-Marco, Lorena; García-Álvarez-Coque, José-María; Martí‐Selva, Luisa

doi:10.1111/jcms.12503

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“…Our findings support previous evidence found by Jouanjean et al (2015) for the US, as well as by Tudela-Marco et al (2016) and Taghouti et al (2015), suggesting that EU SPS border controls are affected by reputation. As regards the evolution of reputation over time, our empirical results suggest that the number of EU notifications in the current year is affected firstly by the product's own reputation, with a relatively stronger effect in the case of one-lagged-year notifications in comparison with two or three lagged years.…”

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confidence: 93%

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Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over time

Taghouti

Martínez-Gómez

Martí

2016

EARN

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The EU's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed provides information on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) notifications. With a set of data from the 1998-2013 period, we test the hypothesis that past notifications can determine current notifications. This is the "reputation effect", meaning that inspectors may tend to target products or countries with previous SPS problems. We analyze the scope of the reputation effect over time. We used two count data models to estimate the distribution of current notifications. In line with previous literature, our findings indicate that reputation does affect current EU notifications. Furthermore, we identify some relevant exporter countries for which reputation is long-lasting. KEYWORDS: Medidas sanitarias y fitosanitarias en las importaciones agroalimentariasde la Unión Europea: los efectos reputación a lo largo del tiempo RESUMEN: El sistema de alerta rápida para alimentos de la UE informa sobre notificaciones sanitarias y fitosanitarias. Con datos del periodo 1998-2013, se comprueba la hipótesis de si notificaciones pasadas afectan a las notificaciones presentes. Se trata del efecto reputación, que implica que los inspectores pueden dirigir sus inspecciones a productos o países que hayan tenido previamente problemas sanitarios y fitosanitarios; también se analiza el alcance temporal de la reputación. Se utilizan dos modelos de recuento para estimar la distribución de las notificaciones actuales. Los resultados muestran que la reputación influye en las notificaciones actuales de la UE. Además, se identifican varios exportadores relevantes para los que la reputación tiene un efecto duradero. PALABRAS CLAVE:Comercio agroalimentario, Modelos de recuento, Sistema de alerta rápida para alimentos, Efecto reputación, Medidas sanitarias y fitosanitarias.

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confidence: 93%

“…The results from Tudela-Marco et al (2016) highlight the fact that EU Member states have no common behaviour in implementing border controls for fruits and vegetables. Tudela-Marco et al's study supports the evidence found by Jouanjean et al (2015) and Taghouti et al (2015) with regard to reputation.…”

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confidence: 93%

Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over time

Taghouti

Martínez-Gómez

Martí

2016

EARN

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“… Jaud et al (2013) analysed notifications to 146 exporting countries, assessing the geographical focus of EU agri-food imports. Tudela-Marco et al (2017) examined possible similarities between six EU member states in their implementation of food safety standards for fruit and vegetable imports. D’Amico et al (2018) sought to detect the most important instances of non-compliance affecting seafood, exploring the possible relationships between the variables characterising the products that received notifications.…”

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The effects on European importers’ food safety controls in the time of COVID-19

2021

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COVID-19 has highlighted the fragility of the global economic system. In just a few months, the consequences of the pandemic have left their mark on the affected countries at all levels and without exception. This article analyses the profile of food safety notifications reported by European countries in the first five months of 2020. The aim was to detect possible changes in food safety regulations imposed by control authorities that could aggravate the economic impacts of the pandemic. While COVID-19 does not appear to be a foodborne disease, some outbreaks have been linked to imported food, which might have affected the food control behaviour of importing countries. In this study, contingency tables and clustering were used to assess differences between years and notification characteristics and to detect homogeneous groups to help identify how the reported notifications might have changed. In the period considered in this study, the volume of notifications on most imported foodstuffs decreased considerably. This decrease was a direct consequence of the fall in international trade, which might have increased countries’ reliance on domestic sources. The COVID-19 crisis has not caused a substantial change in the profile of European countries’ in terms of the characteristics of reported notifications (product category and risk decision). However, the worst affected countries have replaced border rejections with alerts, which may indicate greater reliance on intra-EU markets.

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“…While institutional conditions have been considered for the quantitative forecasting of RASFF notifications for fresh food products [14], nuts [16], and the whole agri-food sector [35], little has been published on practical tools to assist food importers or policy-makers with their assessment of how the political and structural conditions of supplying countries can affect the safety of their exported products. Some guidelines have been designed to consider sociopolitical opportunities and motivations for food fraud [11,36,37].…”

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“…As far as international trade is concerned, some econometric studies have introduced policy and institutional variables for forecasting food incidents and alerts [12][13][14][15][16]. However, while most of these approaches are helpful in providing an ex post explanation of the drivers of food risk, their focus has not been the ex ante multicriteria assessment of risk drivers for prevention purposes.…”

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Food Supply without Risk: Multicriteria Analysis of Institutional Conditions of Exporters

Puertas

Martí

García-Álvarez-Coque

2020

IJERPH

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International trade in food knows no borders, hence the need for prevention systems to avoid the consumption of products that are harmful to health. This paper proposes the use of multicriteria risk prevention tools that consider the socioeconomic and institutional conditions of food exporters. We propose the use of three decision-making methods—Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to the Ideal Solution (TOPSIS), Elimination et Choix Traduisant la Realité (ELECTRE), and Cross-Efficiency (CE)—to establish a ranking of countries that export cereals to the European Union, based on structural criteria related to the detection of potential associated risks (notifications, food quality, corruption, environmental sustainability in agriculture, and logistics). In addition, the analysis examines whether the wealth and institutional capacity of supplier countries influence their position in the ranking. The research was carried out biannually over the period from 2012–2016, allowing an assessment to be made of the possible stability of the markets. The results reveal that suppliers’ rankings based exclusively on aspects related to food risk differ from importers’ actual choices determined by micro/macroeconomic features (price, production volume, and economic growth). The rankings obtained by the three proposed methods are not the same, but present certain similarities, with the ability to discern countries according to their level of food risk. The proposed methodology can be applied to support sourcing strategies. In the future, food safety considerations could have increased influence in importing decisions, which would involve further difficulties for low-income countries.

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Do EU Member States Apply Food Standards Uniformly? A Look at Fruit and Vegetable Safety Notifications

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over time

Sanitary and Phytosanitary measures in agri-food imports from the European Union: Reputation effects over time

The effects on European importers’ food safety controls in the time of COVID-19

Food Supply without Risk: Multicriteria Analysis of Institutional Conditions of Exporters

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