Food-Borne Illnesses
Food-Borne Illnesses | Private Inspection Would Improve Meat Safety
E.C. Pasour Jr. is an economist at North Carolina State University.
Summary: Private inspection firms driven by market incentives can provide consumers with more effective safeguards against tainted meat than federal inspection. A private firm inspecting meatpacking plants would be profitable only as long as its inspections accurately reflected the quality of the meat. If consumers became ill after eating meat inspected by a particular firm, that firm would soon go out of business. Thus, the profit incentive would stimulate more careful inspection of...
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Table of Contents
- Food-Borne Illnesses: An Overview
- Mad Cow Disease Is a Threat to American Meat
- The Threat of Mad Cow Disease in the United States Has Been Exaggerated
- America’s Food Supply Is Threatened by Terrorism
- Food-Borne Illnesses Are Declining in the United States
- Food-Borne Illnesses Are a Threat to Europe
- Food-Borne Illnesses Are Costly
- Genetically Modified Food Causes Food-Borne Illnesses
- Genetically Modified Foods Do Not Cause Food-Borne Illnesses
- Irradiation Helps Improve Food Safety
- Food Irradiation Is Dangerous and Ineffective
- Federal Inspection Makes America’s Meat Safe
- Federal Inspection Does Not Adequately Ensure Meat Safety
- Private Inspection Would Improve Meat Safety
- Too Much Responsibility for Food Safety Is Placed on Consumers
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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