Abstract
The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) places more responsibility on the private sector to ensure the safety of imported food. It also requires the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide international food safety capacity building on the new regulations and to monitor and evaluate those efforts. However, public resources to support programs abroad are limited. International capacity building supported by the private sector, which sometimes has its own standards that suppliers need to meet, can complement public efforts. This chapter discusses the market failures associated with food safety provision and why both the public and private sectors have been involved in international food safety capacity building. It reviews public and private sector efforts and some of the partnerships that have formed. It discusses the limitations of monitoring and evaluation efforts when relying solely on publicly available data. It argues that mobilizing public-private partnerships in monitoring and evaluation can make it easier to capture the collective impact of international food safety capacity-building efforts.
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Abbreviations
- APEC:
-
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
- ARS:
-
Agricultural Research Service
- BPCS:
-
Better Process Control School
- CDC:
-
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CSREES:
-
Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
- FAS:
-
Foreign Agricultural Service
- FDA:
-
Food and Drug Administration
- FSIS:
-
Food Safety and Inspection Service
- FSMA:
-
Food Safety Modernization Act
- FSPCA:
-
Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance
- FSVP:
-
Foreign Supplier Verification Program
- GAP:
-
Good agricultural practices
- GFSI:
-
Global Food Safety Initiative
- GFSP:
-
Global Food Safety Partnership
- GMA:
-
Grocery Manufacturers Association
- GMP:
-
Good manufacturing practices
- HACCP:
-
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points
- HVA:
-
High-value agricultural
- IEC:
-
International Electrotechnical Commission
- IFT:
-
Institute of Food Technologists
- IICA:
-
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
- IIT IFSH:
-
Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute for Food Safety and Health
- ILSI:
-
International Life Sciences Institute
- ISO:
-
International Standard Organization
- JIFSAN:
-
Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
- M and E:
-
Monitoring and evaluation
- MIS:
-
Marketing information services
- NASA:
-
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- NASDA:
-
National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
- NOAA:
-
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- OASIS:
-
Operational and Administrative System for Import Support
- OECD:
-
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- PPP:
-
Public-private partnership
- SCM:
-
Supply chain management
- SPS:
-
Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
- SSA:
-
Sprout Safety Alliance
- UNIDO:
-
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
- USAID:
-
US Agency for International Development
- USDA:
-
United States Department of Agriculture
- WHO:
-
World Health Organization
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Narrod, C., Dou, X., Wychgram, C., Miller, M. (2018). Economic Rationale for US Involvement in Public-Private Partnerships in International Food Safety Capacity Building. In: Roberts, T. (eds) Food Safety Economics. Food Microbiology and Food Safety(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92138-9_14
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