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Private incentives for adopting food safety and quality assurance |
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| Authors: | Erin Holleran Maury E. Bredahl Lokman Zaibet |
| Affiliation: | a Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, 200 Mumford Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA;b Center for International Trade Studies, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, 200 Mumford Hall, Columbia, MO 65211, USA;c Department of Agricultural Economics, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman |
| Abstract: | The competitiveness of food companies in national and international markets depends upon their ability to adopt production processes which meet food safety and quality requirements. Food safety and quality assurance affect the cost of carrying out transactions, and therein lies the private incentive for adopting voluntary quality assurance systems. While quality assurance systems have the potential to reduce transaction costs by serving as the seller's guarantee of safety or quality, they may also serve as trade barriers. |
| Keywords: | ISO 9000 Transaction costs Trade barriers Quality system Food safety |
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