Food safety issues and fresh food product exports from LDCs

By L. Unnevehr. 2000

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Fresh food products have a high income elasticity of demand and few traditional trade barriers in high income markets. As such, they represent an important opportunity for less developed country (LDC) exporters. Fresh food product exports account for half of all food and agricultural exports from LDCs to high income countries. But these products may be subject to greater food safety risks and potential trade barriers arising from sanitary regulation. This paper reviews the challenges and issues facing LDCs in meeting food safety standards for export. These issues include: (a) the importance of fresh food product trade by region and the kinds of issues that arise from those products; (b) the role of farm to table approaches and hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP) in ensuring safety; (c) the role of the public sector in LDCs in facilitating trade; (d) the potential role of the SPS Agreement in resolving disputes and determining equivalency of standards between high and low income countries.

Subfields: Food Science, Strategy and Management

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The development of private fresh produce safety standards: implications for developing Mediterranean exporting countries (2004, background): “European Union) regulatory demands on market access for developing countries (see for example, Reardon et al., 1999; Busch et al., 2000; Weatherspoon and Reardon, 2003; Unnevehr, 2000).”
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Non-Tariff Measures and Standards in Trade and Global Value Chains (2015, background): “African countries (Gibbon, 2003; Weatherspoon and Reardon, 2003; Unnevehr, 2000; Supervie and Vagneron, 2013), Asia (Belton et al.”
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Standards as Barriers Versus Standards as Catalysts: Assessing the Impact of HACCP Implementation on U.S. Seafood Imports (2009, unknown): “…Panama, Peru, Philippines, Russian Federation, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, and Viet Nam. are developed countries.2 The net foreign exchange receipts derived from fish in developing countries increased from $11.6 billion in 1992 to $17.4 billion in 2002.”