1. Economics of agro-food safety and international market for agro-food products and legislation
Antonio Stasi

2. INDEX Food Safety regulations International principles on Food Safety
International principles and regulations: novel foods
Bilateral agreements and food safety SPS (sanitary and phytosanitary) agreements
Individual country regulations

3. Food Safety Regulations
EX ANTE regulations
Standards
Inspection
Product testing
Controlled by a system of incentives or penalties

4. Food Safety Regulations
Direct Regulations
Economic incentives and disincentives in attempt to influence the behavior of buyers and/or sellers (taxes or subsidies)
Information-based measures (disclosure)
Liability laws (degree of penalty, producers liable for injuries caused by defective products)
Self regulation and voluntary certifications
The company sets, controls and monitors the parameters
Certifications approved by third parties
Corresponds to reputation based labeling on food products

5. International principles on Food Safety
Rome Declaration on World Food Security (1996)
All people have the right to access to safe food
FAO (food and agriculture organization) and WHO (world health organization) are responsible for food safety
WHO has established a global strategy of surveillance of food-borne diseases.

6. International principles and regulations Novel Foods
Principle of SUBSTANTIAL EQUIVALENCE (OECD)
If a product (i.e. GM food) show no significant differences with its conventional counterpart (i.e. non GM) they could be considered substantially equivalent so there is no need to label them differently
PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE (EU) /approach
Until there is strong evidence of a product having no long term effects on human health and environment consumers have the right to make informed choices, those products, thus, need to be labeled differently

7. Concern pesticides residues, chemicals on food products
Bilateral agreements and food safety SPS (Sanitary and Phytosanitary) Agreeements
Concern pesticides residues, chemicals on food products
Decided within the context of World Trade Organization (WTO)
They are “target” type of standards and products that do not meet those standards cannot be traded
General aim is global market harmonization
Risk Assessment, transparency based

8. Individual country regulations
Applied to domestic productions not to imports
Applied to imported products not to domestic ones
Those two could be banned from WTO
Regulations applied to domestic and imported goods but foreign firms cannot comply
Exposed to WTO judgment
Regulations applied to domestic and imported goods and both source firms can comply

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