Managing for safer food
Subtitle: the economics of sanitation and process controls in meat and poultry plants
By: Michael Ollinger and Valerie Mueller.
Contributors: Mueller, Valerie.; United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Economic Research Service.
Series: Agricultural economic report -- no. 817.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Meat industry and trade -- Sanitation -- United States -- Costs.; Poultry plants -- Sanitation -- United States -- Costs.; Food -- Safety measures -- Costs.
Other titles: Electronic report from the Economic Research Service.; Economics of sanitation and process controls in meat and poultry plants.
Description: "This study evaluates the costs of sanitation and process control in producing meat and poultry. The study shows that the costs of sanitation and process control as required by the Pathogen Reduction/Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP) rule of 1996 raised wholesale meat and poultry prices by about 1 percent."
Notes: Cover title.

"April 2003."

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-64).

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