Food Safety Standards - Costs and Benefits

An analysis of the regulatory impact of the proposed national food safety reforms.

May 1999

This document is the regulatory impact statement for the food safety standards.  It is too large too open as a single document.  Each chapter must be be downloaded as a separate document.  The chapter titles are listed:

• Executive Summary
• Contents, Acknowledgements, Acronyms
• Introduction, Statement of the Problem
• Incidence of food borne illness, Cost of food borne illness
• Proposed Food Safety Standards
• Assessment of options for food safety regulation
• Summary of options, Conclusion
• References and Appendices