Toward safer food
Subtitle: perspectives on risk and priority setting
By: edited by Sandra A. Hoffmann, Michael R. Taylor.
Contributors: Hoffmann, Sandra A.; Taylor, Michael R.
Publisher: Resources for the Future
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Food -- Safety measures; Food adulteration and inspection
Description: An integrated, risk based food safety system is the essential scientific basis for better priority setting. However, there has been little advance about how to integrate knowledge about food safety risks into a system wide risk analysis framework. This book begins to answer this need by bringing together leading scientists, risk analysts, and economists, as well as experienced regulators and policy analysts. It includes a multidisciplinary introduction to the existing data, research, and methodological and conceptual approaches on which a system wide risk analysis framework must draw. It also recognizes that efforts to improve food safety will be influenced by institutional contexts. Intended to be accessible to people from a wide variety of backgrounds, the book retains the conceptual sophistication needed to understand the challenges that are inherent in improving food safety.
Notes: "An RFF Press book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Getting to risk-based food safety regulatory management -- Sandra A. Hoffman -- The; title: Centennial of U.S. food safety law: a legal and administrative history -- Richard A. Merrill; title: Linking illnesses to foods: a conceptual framework -- Robert V. Tauxe; title: Where are potential chemical hazards in the U.S. food supply? -- Penelope A. Fenner-Crisp -- The; title: Current state of play: federal and state expenditures on food safety -- Lawrence J. Dyckman; title: Industry costs to make food safe: now and under a risk-based system -- Laurian J. Unnevehr -- and -- Helen H. Jensen -- The; title: Value to consumers of reducing foodborne risks -- Elsie Golan, -- Jean Buzby, -- Stephen Crutchfield, -- Paul D. Frenzen, -- Fred Kuchler, -- Katherine Ralston, -- and -- Tanya Roberts; title: New developments in chemical and microbial risk assessment -- Robert Buchanan -- and -- Bart Suhre; title: Best things first: rethinking priority setting for food safety policy -- Peter Nelson -- and -- Alan J. Krupnick; title: Judgment-based risk ranking for food safety -- Michael L. DeKay, -- Paul S. Fischbeck, -- H. Keith Florig, -- M. Granger Morgan, -- Kara M. Morgan, -- Baruch Fischhoff, -- and -- Karen E. Jenni; title: Quality-adjusted life years: application to food safety priority setting -- Milton C. Weinstein; title: Willingness-to-pay measures of food safety regulatory benefits -- James K. Hammitt; title: Opportunities for risk reduction: a public health perspective -- J. Glenn Morris, Jr.; title: Opportunities for risk reduction: an economist's perspective -- Julie A. Caswell; title: Toward an integrated, risk-based food safety system: constructing the analytical tools -- Michael R. Taylor -- Appendix:; title: Responsibilities of federal agencies involved with food safety.