Julie A. Caswell

TL;DR: In the United States, the federal government is increasingly using requirements for informational labeling on food products to influence consumers' knowledge and purchasing patterns and manufacturers' product offerings and marketing practices.

TL;DR: In the United States, the federal government is increasingly using requirements for informational labeling on food products to influence consumers' knowledge and purchasing patterns and manufacturers' product offerings and marketing practices as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a number of issues that are influencing the evolution of food safety regulation in developed and, to a lesser extent, developing countries are discussed, including criteria applied to assess the need/justification for food safety regulations, relationships between public and private food safety control systems, alternative forms that public food-safety regulation can take, strategic responses to food food regulation, and the trade implications of national food safety controls.

TL;DR: In this article, the benefits and costs of the broad array of roles labels serve, with evaluation of alternative regimes based on their impacts on consumer behavior and seller strategy, are evaluated.

TL;DR: The authors conclude that opportunities clearly exist, to varying degrees in the different countries analysed, but that considerable obstacles remain to the widespread adoption of co-regulatory practices in the area of food safety.