Dr. John Bovay, University of Connecticut
Seminar Title: “Producer Response to Public Disclosure of Food-safety Information”
Abstract:
Beginning in 2003, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) put forth a series of Federal Register announcements regarding the public disclosure of results of tests for Salmonella in chicken carcasses. In particular, FSIS announced in 2003 that it would disclose the identities of plants failing its Salmonella tests if test performance did not improve and introduced a measure of food-safety quality and again threatened public disclosure in 2006. In 2008, FSIS carried out its threatened action by publicly reporting the names of plants with poor performance. This article examines the effect of these actions on Salmonella test outcomes. We find that (1) announcements of possible changes to public disclosure requirements in 2003 had a strong effect on the poorest-performing plants, (2) the introduction of a measure of food-safety quality and FSIS repeating the threat of possible changes to public disclosure requirements in 2006 improved the performance of all plants, and (3) implementation of a public disclosure program in 2008 led to improvements among better-performing plants.
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
3:00pm - 4:15pm
W.B. Young Building, room 304
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For more information, contact: Tatiana Andreyeva at tatiana.andreyeva@uconn.edu