Impacts of food safety on beef demand

Consumer Food Safety Risk Perceptions and Attitudes: Impacts on Beef Consumption across Countries

Beef food safety events have contributed to considerable market volatility, produced varied consumer reactions, created policy debates, sparked heated trade disputes, and generally contributed to beef industry frustrations. Utilizing data from a total of 4,005 consumers in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Japan in a Double-Hurdle modeling framework, we examine whether consumers altered the...

Impacts of food processing industry on some environmental health and safety factors

In developing countries, it is common to site (or locate) industries without environmental impact assessment. In this study the impacts of two food processing industries on land use and land capability, noise and vibration, environmentally sensitive areas and visual quality as environmental elements were investigated. The research method adopted was the investigative survey research approach (I...

Irradiating Ground Beef To Enhance Food Safety

January-April 1997 33 I nsufficiently cooked ground beef was identified as the cause of a 1993 outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 illness in the Western United States when four children died and over 700 people became ill. The magnitude and media coverage of this and other recent foodborne illness outbreaks have helped elevate public awareness of foodborne microbial pathogens. The food indust...

Impacts of Covid-19 on the food industry

Covid-19 pandemic has had a variety of effects on a variety of industries, including the food industry, both positive and negative [1-3]. Meanwhile, the food industry is more affected by this disease than other industries due to its wide relationship with the household and the community; because activities such as restaurants, coffee shops, hotels and schools were either closed during this peri...

Weather and Climate Impacts on Beef Cattle