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| Title: | Optimal choice of Voluntary traceability as a food risk management tool |
| Authors: | Souza Monteiro, Diogo M.
Caswell, Julie A. |
| Keywords: | Traceability
food safety
principal-agent
model |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | Traceability systems are information tools
implemented within and between firms in food chains to
improve logistics and transparency or to reduce total
food safety damage costs. Information about location
and condition of products is critical when food safety
incidents arise. This paper uses a principal-agent model
to investigate the optimal choice of voluntary
traceability in terms of precision of information on a
given attribute at each link of a food chain. The results
suggest that four scenarios may emerge for the supply
chain depending on the costs of a system and whether or
not the industry can internalize total food safety
damages: no traceability, traceability for one link, equal
traceability for all links, or different positive traceability
levels across all links. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/44394 |
| Institution/Association: | European Association of Agricultural Economists>2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium |
| Total Pages: | 7 |
| Collections: | 2008 International Congress, August 26-29, 2008, Ghent, Belgium
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