Markets, Regulation, and Policy

ERS conducts economic analysis on issues affecting food safety in the United States. The US Department of Agriculture manages meat and poultry, egg products and salmon, but the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees food safety for almost all other foods.

ERS is studying how private market and government regulation interact to ensure food safety in the United States. This survey covers the following major areas.

Management of food processing and processing practices (eg slaughter of meat and chicken, packaging and shipping for manufacturing)

ERS surveyed the industry's response to the occurrence of food borne illness, recalled the effectiveness of litigation to compensate for product demand and plant behavior, and foodborne disease victims. ERS also encourages market mechanisms such as contracts or partnerships developed by commercial buyers to promote the impact of government regulation on food safety performance, meat processing factory and agricultural products industry food security performance, as well as food safety We will consider food producers. Distinctive

The globalization of food supply means that new food safety risks and previously managed risks may be brought into each country and that contaminated food may be dispersed in a wider geographic area I mean it. Food safety issues can reduce demand for specific products, change domestic production and international food trading patterns, and limit market access to specific exporters. ERS is analyzing global food safety, including the interaction of regulatory and marketing incentives in promoting food safety, display and traceability, and the impact of the occurrence of certain foodborne diseases. ERS maintains a series of phytosanitary regulatory data on the import of fresh fruits and vegetables in the United States

• Should we take policy measures as a precautionary measure without fully considering the effectiveness and effectiveness of marketing regulations? If not, what particular research area should be prioritized? If a preventive approach is deemed to be more appropriate, is it worthwhile to develop some form of global principles or methods? Recent evidence suggests that marketing influences food choices and affects eating habits, which may affect weight gain and obesity. The review shows that there are many choices for overseeing children's food marketing. There was a recent consensus that all stakeholders should address this issue. Therefore, the central problem may be how to deal effectively with food marketing issues, not whether to deal with children's food marketing issues.

Selection of policy To counter the marketing message that encourages children's unhealthy eating habits, the selection of basic policies is in legal regulation, self-regulation, or a combination of the two - joint regulation. Given the insufficient monitoring of the impact of the regulations being noted, the basis for deciding the choice between these regulatory forms is relatively small. Nevertheless it is still possible to consider how to apply each method based on structural differences between legal goals and voluntary goals and intentions. Since self-regulation is aimed at reducing the number of fraudulent, misleading and exploitative advertisements children receive, it leads the contents of food marketing activities for children and manages marketing methods that children do not understand It is a regulation that can be used for. . This is why regulations that proactively limit marketing have traditionally been handled through legal regulations.