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Title Toward safer food : perspectives on risk and priority setting / edited by Sandra A. Hoffmann, Michael R. Taylor.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Resources for the Future, c2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  363.192 T65 2005    ---  Available
Description xiv, 319 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note "An RFF Press book"--T.p. verso.
Contents Getting to risk-based food safety regulatory management / Sandra A. Hoffman -- Centennial of U.S. food safety law : a legal and administrative history / Richard A. Merrill -- Linking illnesses to foods : a conceptual framework / Robert V. Tauxe -- Where are potential chemical hazards in the U.S. food supply? / Penelope A. Fenner-Crisp -- Current state of play : federal and state expenditures on food safety / Lawrence J. Dyckman -- Industry costs to make food safe : now and under a risk-based system / Laurian J. Unnevehr and Helen H. Jensen -- Value to consumers of reducing foodborne risks / Elsie Golan, Jean Buzby, Stephen Crutchfield, Paul D. Frenzen, Fred Kuchler, Katherine Ralston, and Tanya Roberts -- New developments in chemical and microbial risk assessment / Robert Buchanan and Bart Suhre -- Best things first : rethinking priority setting for food safety policy / Peter Nelson and Alan J. Krupnick -- Judgement-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 -- Quality-adjusted life years : application to food safety priority setting / Milton C. Weinstein -- Willingness-to-pay measures of food safety regulatory benefits / James K. Hammitt -- Opportunities for risk reduction : a public health perspective / J. Glenn Morris, Jr. -- Opportunities for risk reduction : an economist's perspective / Julie A. Caswell -- Toward an integrated, risk-based food safety system : constructing the analytical tools / Michael R. Taylor -- Appendix: Responsibilities of federal agencies involved with food safety.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Food -- Safety measures.
Food adulteration and inspection.
Added Author Hoffmann, Sandra A. (Sandra Ann)
Taylor, Michael R., 1949-
ISBN 1891853902 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1891853899 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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