Food Safety Costs for Farms Vary Across Commodities Due to Differences in Farm Size
Ferrier, Peyton
2018

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Abstract

An ERS study estimated farm-level costs to comply with the Food Safety Modernization Act's Produce Rule by commodity, State, and farm size. Costs ranged from as little as 0.3 percent of annual produce sales for the largest farms and 6.8 percent for the smallest.

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Title
Food Safety Costs for Farms Vary Across Commodities Due to Differences in Farm Size
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Author(s)
Ferrier, Peyton
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Issue Date
Sep 04 2018
Publication Type
Journal Article
DOI and Other Identifiers
10.22004/ag.econ.302649
Record Identifier
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/302649
ISSN
1545-8741
Language
English
Published in
Amber Waves: The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America
Volume
September 2018
Issue
08
Record Appears in
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) > Economic Research Service > Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America

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