New Choices article available

New Tool (FooDS) Identifies Consumers' Views on Food Safety

Consumers' preferences and concerns for food- and meat-related issues have been tracked over the past 16 months. While current events have led to spikes in concern for and awareness of issues like E. coli and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), demands for meat products have remained steady despite high prices and adverse news events.

Jayson L. Lusk and Susan Murray

JEL Classifications: Q11, Q13, Q18

Keywords: Consumer Demand, Meat, Tracking, Willingness-to-Pay

 

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Recordings Posted for Farm Bill Webinar Series: Specialty Crop Programs, Food Safety & FSMA and Thoughts for the Future

Recordings Posted for:

2014 Farm Bill - Specialty Crop Programs, Food Safety & FSMA and Thoughts for Future

http://www.farmmanagement.org/aginuncertaintimesenglish/ag-in-uncertain-times/recordings/

Presentations:

* Dr. Daniel Sumner, University of California- Davis - 2014 Farm Bill Specialty Crop Programs
* Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) Bihn, Cornell University - Food Safety and the Food Safety Modernization Act

* Dr. Shannon Neibergs, Washington State University - 2014 Farm Bill Insights and Thoughts for the Future

 

Archives: Webinars will be recorded and presentation materials are archived at:

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Webinar Sponsors: 

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New Issue of Choices Available Online

A new issue of our free online magazine Choices is now available! This issue's theme focuses on Developing Local Food Systems in the South. Local food systems have been heralded as an avenue to provide quality food to local consumers grown profitably by local producers. This issue introduces an overview of the Land Grant System's role in peeling back the complex layers of risk management, consumer demand, marketing, food safety and environmental and economic effects in developing viable local food system. 
http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Food Policy, "Zero Tolerance Rules in Food Safety and Quality"

The journal Food Policy is now accepting submissions for a special issue titled "Zero Tolerance Rules in Food Safety and Quality". Papers should be on average 6,000 words long (including abstract, appendices, tables etc) and must be submitted by April 16, 2012.

Here's the description of the special issue from its editors:

The special issue of Food Policy will focus on zero tolerance as a characteristic of public policy, statues, and/or regulations of food. We also consider private rules including grades and standards. Of interest are the public and private rules that impose a "zero" standard for substances, e.g. residues, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), pathogens, and other constituents such as gluten and transfats. This standard also applies to rules governing production practices, for example, added hormones, and product defects, such as, insect parts.

You can find more information about this issue in the full call for papers. More information about how to submit is available on the journal website.