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Firm Strategic Response to Food Safety and Nutrition Regulation

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Increased scientific evidence and consumer awareness of the health effects of diet have created an expanded market for food products that fit specific safety and nutrition profiles. Firm response to this demand is made in the context of extensive ex ante (administrative agency) and ex post (liability) government regulation of food products. Firms simultaneously seek to modify the structure of government regulation to their strategic advantage.

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  1. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA

    Julie A. Caswell (Associate Professor of Resource Economics)

  2. University of Manitoba, Canada

    Gary V. Johnson (Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management)

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    Julie A. Caswell

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Caswell, J.A., Johnson, G.V. (1991). Firm Strategic Response to Food Safety and Nutrition Regulation. In: Caswell, J.A. (eds) Economics of Food Safety. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7076-5_13

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