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Food Safety: The Consumer Side of the Environmental Issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2016

Carol S. Kramer
Carol S. Kramer*
Affiliation:
National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC
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A key player in the current policy debate over chemical use in food production is the consumer. In the last few years we have witnessed that consumer activism has been able to force policy change in a number of areas important to the agricultural and food industries. Consumers' perceptions and concerns about pesticide and animal drug residues in foods can translate, in sometimes volatile and unpredictable ways, into market behavior. In addition to affecting the consumer's own satisfaction and welfare, the consumer's market behavior is obviously of major interest to agricultural producers, manufacturers, wholesalers, and food retailers. Policymakers and regulators are feeling heightened pressure to understand and respond better to consumer (and voter) concerns over pesticides and other chemicals commonly used in agriculture.

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Invited Papers and Discussions
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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , July 1990 , pp. 33 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1990

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