Food Safety Economics in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Charlebois, Sylvain; Vandertuin, Trevor

doi:10.5539/jfr.v10n4p1

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“…These are important findings, suggesting that the stigma related to SARS-CoV-2 might further deepen standing racial inequalities related to nutrition and health [90]. However, it was largely inferred that the pandemic has generally pushed consumers to worry more about food safety than before [91,92].…”

Section: Risk Perception Affecting Behavior Science Claritymentioning

confidence: 99%

SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and Food Safety Oversight: Implications in Canada and Coping Strategies

Charlebois

Music

2021

Foods

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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has created enormous societal disruptions in the Western world, including Canada, with serious implications for food safety. Since the start of the pandemic, many scholars have investigated the issue of food safety through different lenses. In this review, two research thrusts were identified, the epidemiology of the virus and food safety oversight. Both were challenged by the pandemic in Canada and elsewhere. In this paper, we first present how Canada experienced the pandemic. We then present how epidemiology and food safety oversight were affected by the virus and how the spread exposed gaps in Canada’s food safety system. We explain how Canada was not adequately prepared to face the food safety challenges posed by SARS-CoV-2. The review ends with an explanation on how risk perceptions will be altered by the pandemic in Canada and how food safety systems will adjust to better anticipate systemic risks in the future.

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Section: Risk Perception Affecting Behavior Science Claritymentioning

confidence: 99%

SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and Food Safety Oversight: Implications in Canada and Coping Strategies

Charlebois

Music

2021

Foods

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“…Food security is a priority for all countries around the world. In the Western world, food security of often taken for granted (Fieldhouse and Thompson, 2012;Charlebois and Vandertuin, 2021). Becoming more food autonomous is known to be a continuing pursuit for most countries around the world (Benke and Tomkins, 2017;Kolinjivadi, Mendez and Dupras, 2019).…”

Section: Food Autonomy and Consumer Perceptionmentioning

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The Feasibility of Controlled Environment in Horticulturally Poor Region: The Case of New Brunswick in Canada

Charlebois¹,

Faires²,

Music³

et al. 2021

JFR

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More than 90% of the money spent on food in the Canadian province of New Brunswick was spent on food that was imported to the province from either other provinces or out of the country. The feasibility of controlled environment agriculture in the Canadian province of New Brunswick depends on a large variety of factors, some of which have no available data. Few studies have looked at this issue, including consumers’ willingness to pay for locally grown produce in that region. The study aims at understanding how agriculture can serve the region differently to increase its food autonomy and how consumers would be receptive to more locally grown produce. From the information in the survey conducted, unless CEA (Controlled Environment Agriculture) crops can compete with conventionally grown and imported alternatives pricewise, it could face many issues in New Brunswick and Canada considering the economic uncertainties surrounding COVID-19. Canadians were also surveyed specifically about paying a premium for food that they considered local, not necessarily Canada as a whole, and many of the larger regions in Canada, such as Ontario and Quebec, consider food grown within their region as local – a definition which would not include New Brunswick.

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“…However, most of these preliminary studies were made at an early stage of the pandemic when the situation was still developing, leading to controversial results in the amount of waste generated compared with a pre-pandemic scenario. For example, Charlebois et al [14] and Zand and Heir [15] found an increase in food waste in Canada and Tehran, respectively, and Principato et al [16] and Fan et al [17] found the opposite in Italy and Shanghai, respectively. These pioneering studies, with some exceptions [3,18], gathered data during the lockdown for short periods (a few months) and were focused on the household fraction [19][20][21][22].…”

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Statistical Analysis of the Long-Term Influence of COVID-19 on Waste Generation—A Case Study of Castellón in Spain

Artacho-Ramírez

Moreno-Solaz²,

Lo-Iacono-Ferreira

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Existing research recognizes the COVID-19 impact on waste generation. However, the preliminary studies were made at an early pandemic stage, focused on the household waste fraction, and employed descriptive statistics that lacked statistical support. This study tries to fill this gap by providing a reliable statistical analysis setting inferential confidence in the waste generation differences found in Castellón. Repeated measures ANOVA were carried out for all the waste fractions collected and recorded in the city landfill database from 2017 to 2020. Additionally, Bonferroni’s multiple comparison test (p < 0.05) was used to assure confidence level correction and identify which pairs of years’ differences appeared. The longitudinal study identified trends for each waste fraction before the pandemic and showed how they changed with the advent of the crisis. Compared to 2019, waste collection in 2020 significantly grew for glass and packaging; remained unchanged for beaches, paper and cardboard, and dropped substantially for households, streets, markets, bulky waste, hospitals, and recycling centres. Total waste showed no differences between 2017 and 2019 but dropped significantly in 2020. These findings may help us better understand the long-term implications of COVID-19 and improve municipal solid waste management in a similar crisis.

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Food Safety Economics in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and Food Safety Oversight: Implications in Canada and Coping Strategies

SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic and Food Safety Oversight: Implications in Canada and Coping Strategies

The Feasibility of Controlled Environment in Horticulturally Poor Region: The Case of New Brunswick in Canada

Statistical Analysis of the Long-Term Influence of COVID-19 on Waste Generation—A Case Study of Castellón in Spain

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