Food safety standards and agri-food supply chains: an introductory overview

Hammoudi, Abdelhakim; Hoffmann, Ruben; Surry, Yves

doi:10.1093/erae/jbp044

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“…In recent years, there had been an increased focus on food safety all over the world. Public food safety standards have been enforced through legislation, and business firms at different degrees of the furnish chain have developed various private standards (Hammoudi et al, 2009). Legislations adopted to improve food safety include standards regarding the characteristics of the final product, production practices in supply chain, traceability within the supply chain and legal liability of the supply chain.…”

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confidence: 99%

Production system and harvesting stage influence on nitrate content and quality of butterhead lettuce

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Leafy vegetables such as lettuce grown under different production systems may accumulate different concentrations of nitrate which may reach to the levels potentially toxic to humans. Moreover, nitrate accumulation varies in various plant parts and physiological age of the plant. Therefore, to determine the effect of production system and harvesting stage on nitrate accumulation and quality of butterhead lettuce, a study was conducted considering two lettuce production systems namely hydroponic and organic, and four different harvesting stages such as 35, 38, 41 and 44 days after transplanting (DAT). The experimental design was complete randomized design (CRD) with four replications. Hydroponic and organic systems performed similar in terms of yield, quality and nitrate content of butterhead lettuce. Delaying harvesting can not only increase yield but also can minimize nitrate accumulation and health hazard risk as well. Delay in harvesting stage may result in quality deterioration of lettuce and increased production cost. Thus, a compromise is necessary to consider 41 DAT as the optimum stage to harvest butterhead lettuce with significantly higher reduction of nitrate content in both outer adult leaf blades and young leaves of hydroponic lettuce. Fresh weight, firmness and color of butterhead lettuce at this stage were still acceptable.

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Production system and harvesting stage influence on nitrate content and quality of butterhead lettuce

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“…There are several facets to international legislation. Its intention is to ensure food safety for consumers but at the same time, it affects the organization of companies and the food chain, and in the final analysis the balance of the power and profit distribution along the supply chain (Hammoudi et al 2009). Busch and Bain (2004) find that the intervention of the WTO, which has brought an intense activity of the regulatory standardization along with the liberalization of international trade, has contributed to the proliferation of private standards.…”

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The reinterpretation of the agri-food system and its spatial dynamics through the industrial district

Sforzi¹,

Mancini²

2012

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Th e industrial district theory has brought to the development economics the opportunity to interpret the economic change through places, where it actually is formed, as a result of the join action of the local and extra-local social, economic and institutional forces. Th is paper sets out to discuss the contribution that the industrial district theory can make to the debate on the spatial dynamics of agri-food systems in the age of globalisation. To this end, the fi rst part of the paper analyses the contribution of the industrial district approach in the relationship between industry and territory; the second part studies the evolution of the concept of the agri-food system and the main determinants of the spatial dynamics in modern agri food systems. Th is paper supports that the industrial district theory can shed a new light on the spatial dynamics of agri-food systems, and can off er an alternative to the mainstream approach. In using the local community as a unit of analysis, the ID theory gives a key role to human agents of production and their knowledge and the agri-food system can be seen as 'a global network of places' , each place being specialized in a diff erent component of the system.

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“…Such systems have included a public certification system (Crespi & Marette, 2001;Jahn, Schramm & Spiller, 2005;Albersmeier, Schulze, Jahn & Spiller, 2009), HACCAP (Starbird, 2005), safety standards systems (Hammoudi, Hoffmann & Surry, 2009), and traceability systems (Sykuta, 2005;Starbird & Amanor-Boadu, 2006;Starbird & Amanor-Boadu, 2007). In addition, researchers have examined the most appropriate methods with which to implement these systems (for example, Farina, Gutman, Lavarello, Nunes & Reardon, 2005;Cho & Hooker, 2007).…”

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Adverse Selection Revisited in the Context of Food Safety

Kawata¹

2013

IBR

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Adverse selection is expected to occur with agricultural products because they are credence goods with respect to food safety. However, these products' safety levels are usually higher than the safety standards set by public agencies. This study suggests reasons for this phenomenon through theoretical examinations and numerical simulations, producing several results. First, even if we suppose that the cost functions of firms producing higher-quality products are in the upper regions, not only can firms producing the lowest-quality products remain in a 'market for lemons' but other firms can as well. Second, if we relax the above assumption about cost functions, even firms producing the highest-quality products can remain in a lemon market, while firms producing middle-quality products can increase their sales. Moreover, the WTP at some stage can be more than the initial WTP.

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Food safety standards and agri-food supply chains: an introductory overview

Cited by 107 publications

References 15 publications

Production system and harvesting stage influence on nitrate content and quality of butterhead lettuce

Production system and harvesting stage influence on nitrate content and quality of butterhead lettuce

The reinterpretation of the agri-food system and its spatial dynamics through the industrial district

Adverse Selection Revisited in the Context of Food Safety

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