Resources for Economists

Some links that may provide resources for economists working on food safety risk analyses are listed below. Most if not all of these sites have multiple links and many of them have search engines. Searches on key word phrases like "cost of illness," "cost-benefit analysis" and the like can identify a wealth of reference materials.

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	U.S. Census Bureau	1997 NAICS Definitions: 311 Food Manufacturing 1997 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes for food manufacturing industries. NAICS and SIC codes and the corresponding index entries are given. (more) Publication Year: 1997	Sep 4, 2002
	National Food and Agricultural Policy Project, Arizona State University East	2003 NFAPP U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Outlook Outlook for the U.S. fruit and vegetable markets. Data is provided on U.S. food prices and expenditures, U.S. fruit and vegetable production value, and supply and utilization (including domestic consumption) for many fruits, vegetables, and nuts. The macroeconomic assumptions employed are also given. (more) Publication Month: February 2003	Jun 24, 2003
	American Agricultural Economics Association	AAEA On-line: The Official Site of the American Agricultural Economics Association Professional organization for agricultural economists. The website includes information on events, careers and education, news, publications, and more. (more)	Jan 29, 2003
	Food and Drug Administration	Administrative Detention of Food for Human or Animal Consumption Under the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 Final rule regarding the administrative detention of food that may present a threat to humans or animals. Includes an overview of the rule, comments to the proposed rule and FDA's responses, the regulatory impact analysis, and more. (more) Publication Date: Friday, June 4, 2004	Aug 23, 2004
	Ippolito, Pauline M., and Janis K. Pappalardo	Advertising Nutrition and Health Evidence from Food Advertising 1977-1997 An FTC Bureau of Economics Staff Report. The report examines the types of claims made in food advertising, with an emphasis on nutrition and health-related claims. There is also discussion on the relationship between regulation and advertising claims and on the economics of advertising. The report includes numerous charts and data tables. There are three appendices, entitled "Computerized Coding Instrument," "Selected Data Tables," and "FTC Food Advertising Cases". (more) Publication Month: September 2002	Nov 5, 2002
	American Economic Association	AEAweb This website provides information for economists, including access to journals, publications, Resources for Economists on the Internet (RFE), links, and more. (more)	Sep 30, 2002
	University of Minnesota	AgEcon Search Full-text digital library of literature related to agriculture and applied economics. Documents may be searched by institution or journal as well as by Boolean search. (more)	Aug 6, 2002
	U.S. Department of Agriculture	Agricultural Baseline Projection Tables USDA Agricultural Baseline Projections, which give long-run projections for the U.S. agricultural sector. Includes assumptions for U.S. and foreign macroeconomic conditions and projections for major commodities, farm income, and consumer food prices. (more)	Jun 7, 2002
	ECONbase, Elsevier Science/ScienceDirect/International Association of Agricultural Economists	Agricultural Economics Journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists.	Jun 24, 2003
	Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Agricultural Marketing Service This service administers programs that relate to the marketing of U.S. agricultural products, including food, fiber, and specialty crops. (more)	Jun 12, 2002
	Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Agricultural Outlook Yearbook, 1960-1991 Annual time series data published in the July 1993 Agricultural Outlook Special Issue on 1962-91 Farm Sector Statistics. Statistics include U.S. crop and livestock production, utilization, trade, agricultural economics, and more. (more) Publication Month: July 1993	Jun 7, 2002
	Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Agricultural Outlook: Statistical Indicators The statistical indicators formerly provided in Agricultural Outlook magazine will continue to be updated regularly on this website. These tables include data on individual commodities, the general economy, agricultural trade, farm income and expenses, farm prices, food prices and expenditures, and other statistical indicators of the food and agriculture system. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, April 1, 2008	Apr 3, 2008
	National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Agricultural Prices -- Annual Reports containing tables that give annual summaries of indexes of prices received and paid by farmers, prices received for commodities by state, and prices paid for production items. 1995 (which contains data for 1994 and some earlier years) is the earliest publication year available. (more)	Sep 5, 2003
	Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators (AREI) Database and Mapping Tool Access to agricultural data using GIS mapping and database retrieval. The only source as of this posting is the Census of Agriculture, but more data sources and enhanced functionality are to be added in the future. Data may be viewed as an interactive map or in tabular form, and may be downloaded in tabular form. (more)	Oct 7, 2003
	National Agricultural Statistics Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Agricultural Statistics Annual publication that publishes information on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns in the United States. (more)	Aug 31, 2001
	Agriculture Network Information Center	Agriculture Network Information Center A guide to online agricultural resources selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions. (more)	Aug 31, 2001
	American Economic Review, American Economic Association	American Economic Review Quarterly journal that contains articles and short papers on economics. There is also an annual publication of the papers and proceedings of the annual meeting. Online access is available for free to AEA members, or by subscription, but anyone may examine the tables of contents and abstracts. (more)	Oct 1, 2002
	Listeria monocytogenes Assessment Team, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Assessing the Effectiveness of the "Listeria monocytogenes" Interim Final Rule: Summary Report Report regarding the effectiveness of aspects of the Listeria monocytogenes interim final rule. Includes findings and recommendations related to verification sampling, labeling and consumer education, retail, public health, economic impact, training, and small plant guidance and a discussion of accomplishments. Attachments include "Listeria Assessment Aspects" and "Project Assessment Team Reports". (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2004	Dec 1, 2004
	Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Background Data on U.S. Beef Industry Summary information on the U.S. beef industry and U.S. meat and livestock trade in 2002 and 2003, U.S. beef prices in 2003, current cattle/beef prices, and more. (more)	Jan 7, 2004
	Robertson, Robert E.	Beef and Lamb: Implications of Labeling by Country of Origin U.S. General Accounting Office Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture, Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives. This report discusses the economic costs and benefits of labeling beef and lamb by country of origin, and includes import data for these commodities. (more) Publication Month: January 2000	Jul 31, 2002
	Food and Drug Administration	Beverages: Bottled Water Proposed rule to amend bottled water quality standard regulations regarding arsenic. Includes discussion of the regulatory impact analysis. The final rule is now available. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, December 2, 2004	Dec 3, 2004
	Food and Drug Administration	Beverages: Bottled Water Final rule that amends bottled water quality standard regulations with respect to arsenic. Includes an analysis of economic impacts and responses to comments on the proposed rule. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, June 9, 2005	Jun 12, 2005
	Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Biotechnology and U.S. Agricultural Trade This website provides information and resources related to biotechnology and U.S. trade in agriculture. Includes links to news releases, fact sheets, events, publications, and more. (more)	Sep 14, 2004
	Dairy, Livestock and Poultry Division, Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) This page links to resources related to the effects of BSE on trade. Includes links to reports, guidelines, directives, and other government agencies' and organizations' web sites related to BSE. (more)	Jan 7, 2004
	Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions and Importation of Commodities Final rule regarding the importation of animals and animal products from regions that present a minimal BSE risk. It establishes Canada as a minimal-risk region. Includes discussion of changes made in the final rule, background information on BSE and its regulation by APHIS, comments on the proposed rule and APHIS's responses, a summary of the economic analysis, and more. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2005	Jan 5, 2005
	Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Briefing Room: Food Consumption This page provides an overview of American food supply, consumption, and expenditures as well as links to publications, data, and information on these topics. (more)	Feb 1, 2005
	BT Safety LLC	BT Safety LLC: Building Technologies for Safety Company that builds software systems and predictive modeling tools to facilitate rapid and effective response to food security and food safety threats. Products include the Food Source Identification and Tracking System (FSITS) model which can be used to simulate the effects of a food contamination event and the Food Event Manager (FEM) model which can be used to support government officials in responding to an actual foodborne outbreak. (more)	May 19, 2005
	Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce	Bureau of Economic Analysis The Bureau of Economic Analysis provides GDP and economic accounts data. From this home page, you can access data interactively, or follow links to datasets. (more)	Jun 7, 2002
	Lieberman, Joseph I.	Bush Administration Policy Shows No Respect for Seniors: Americans 70 and Over Valued Less When Calculating Benefits of Regulation: Lieberman Asks for Policy Renunciation Release and letter by Sen. Lieberman regarding Lieberman's views on the practices of adjusting for age in calculating the value of a life. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2003	Jul 2, 2003
	Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Changes in Food Consumption and Expenditures Data on average annual household food use and related expenditures for major foods and food groups, 1977/78 and 1987/88. Publication Month: December 1992	Jun 7, 2002
	Quarne Publishing LLC	Cheese Market News Online: The Weekly Newspaper of the Nation's Cheese and Dairy/Deli Business This online publication includes the daily and weekly market activity, information on new products, a searchable article archive, the 2002 Market Directory, and more. (more)	Jul 26, 2002
	Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	China Agricultural and Economic Data National and provincial level agricultural-related data from China. Data are downloadable in pdf, Excel, or html format.	Jul 27, 2005
	Gale, Fred; Tang, Ping; Bai, Xianhong; Xu, Huijun	Commercialization of Food Consumption in Rural China Report of a study of rural food consumption patterns in China, with discussion of changes in consumption of self-produced commodities and commercial foods. Includes as an appendix "China Rural Household Survey". (more) Publication Month: July 2005	Jul 27, 2005
	Isaac Funk Family Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/ Agriculture Network Information Center	Corn Information This website links to resources related to corn, including resources on biotechnology, economics, statistics, and news, corn-related organizations, and more. (more)	Dec 21, 2004
	DHHS, CFSAN, Food and Drug Administration/RTI	Cost of Reformulating Foods and Cosmetics Foods and cosmetics are examples of regulated products which are sometimes reformulated in response to changes in the marketplace or regulatory environment. RTI and the Economics Team at the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) produced this model, based on the earlier labeling cost model, to help estimate the costs incurred in reformulation due to changes in regulations. The report provides information on the process of reformulation and a description of the underlying assumptions and calculations used in developing the model. Instructions for using the model are in Section 4 of the report. (more) Publication Month: July 2002	Mar 8, 2005
	Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration/Anderson, Donald W.; Lindrooth, Richard C.; Murray, Brian C.; Teague, Jackqueline L./Center for Economics Research, Research Triangle Institute	Cost of Restrictions on Gulf Oyster Harvesting for Control of Vibrio vulnificus-Caused Disease Report of a study conducted by the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the costs of various control plans for Vibrio vulnificus in Gulf of Mexico oysters. It includes an estimate of the compliance costs of the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference (ISSC) interim control plan for Vibrio vulnificus in oysters. Data is provided in tables and charts on oyster harvests, oysters bound for raw consumption, number of harvesters, processing plants, and shippers, baseline prices, and more. (more) Publication Month: October 1996	Sep 30, 2002
	Foreign Trade Division, U.S. Census Bureau	Country by 1-digit SITC Commodity Trade Data Products traded with the U.S., listed in tables by month for each country. Data available beginning 1996.	Jun 7, 2002
	Krissoff, Barry; Kuchler, Fred; Nelson, Kenneth; Perry, Janet; Somwaru, Agapi	Country-of-Origin Labeling: Theory and Observation This report examines the economics behind the differing claims regarding the effects of mandatory country-of-origin labeling. (more) Publication Month: January 2004	Feb 4, 2004
	D&B, Inc.	D&B - Dun's Market Identifiers (R) (Dialog file 516) This database can be used to find the number of businesses, number of establishments, number of employees, and dollar sales. In addition to its uses in cost-benefit analyses, this broad business database can be used in risk assessments because it allows estimating the number of establishments by type. For example, the number of restaurants that serve sushi in the United States can help determine the probability of exposure to raw seafood, which could prove important in a risk assessment. To find out more, see the Dialog Bluesheet for file 516. (more)	Jun 13, 2002
	Bailey, Ken	Dairy Outlook Web Site This site provides access to a variety of data on the dairy industry. There is Pennsylvania dairy market information as well as national data on milk production, dairy product production, dairy products in cold storage, commercial disapperance of milk and dairy products, prices, import/export data, and more. (more)	Jul 29, 2002
	Stewart, Hayden; Blisard, Noel; Bhuyan, Sanjib; Nayga, Jr., Rodolfo M.	Demand for Food Away from Home: Full-Service or Fast Food? Report on the predicted growth of consumer spending at full-service and fast food restaurants, given the growth in household income and demographic changes. (more) Publication Month: January 2004	Jan 28, 2004
	Dialog Corporation	Dialog Dialog(R) provides access to 900 databases with content areas that include government regulations, social sciences, food and agriculture, business and finance, reference, energy and environment, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, science and technology, medicine, and more. One can perform highly advanced searches to retrieve the precise data that is needed. The Bluesheets provide written guides for every database on the Dialog(R) service, including detailed instructions on search techniques for each database. Databases may be searched alphabetically by title, by subject, by index terms, by number, and by category. This is a very useful resource for obtaining data. (more)	Jun 12, 2002
	American Economic Association	EconLit This site provides information about EconLit, an electronic bibliography of international economics literature. It includes a description of this resource, a listing of vendors through which to access EconLit, the listing of subject descriptors used, search hints, and more. (more)	Sep 30, 2002
	Crutchfield, Stephen R.; Buzby, Jean C.; Roberts, Tanya; Ollinger, Michael; Lin, C.T. Jordan	Economic Assessment of Food Safety Regulations: The New Approach to Meat and Poultry Inspection This report discusses the economic implications of the implementation of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) systems in federally inspected processors and slaughterhouses. (more) Publication Month: July 1997	Aug 31, 2001
	Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	Economic Research Service This service provides economic research and data.	Aug 31, 2001
	Calvin, Linda; Avenda?o, Belem; Schwentesius, Rita	The Economics of Food Safety: The Case of Green Onions and Hepatitis A Outbreaks Report on the economics of food safety using a case study of foodborne illness outbreaks associated with green onions from Mexico. Includes discussion of the benefits and costs to growers of improving food safety practices, the economic impact of the green onion-associated Hepatitis A outbreaks, response to the outbreaks, and more. Appendices include "Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)" and "Imperfect Information and Prices for Safer Food". (more) Publication Month: December 2004	Dec 8, 2004
	Philipson, Tomas; Dai, Carolanne; Helmchen, Lorens; Variyam, Jayachandran	The Economics of Obesity: A Report on the Workshop Held at USDA's Economic Research Service Report of a workshop on the Economics of Obesity held April 22, 2003 in Washington, DC. Includes discussion of the causes or contributing factors to increased obesity, economic incentives to reducing obesity, methodology for assessing diet and physical activity, and future research needs. The workshop agenda is included as an appendix. (more) Publication Month: May 2004	Jun 3, 2004
	Karlsson, Sune	EconPapers This database provides access to RePEc, a collection of on-line economics papers, journal articles, and software. Abstracts and bibliographic info are provided, as well as links to the full text for most documents. Free economics software is available for download. (more)	Aug 21, 2002
	Economics Department, Washington University	EconWPA Information on papers in 22 economics subject areas.	Aug 31, 2001
	Cost Benefit Group	Environmental Valuation and Cost Benefit Website Website related to the economic and environmental impacts of policies and actions.	Aug 31, 2001
	Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture	ERS/USDA Data This web page will help you to find ERS data. Includes links to data products, tools for viewing data, interactive maps and spacial data, information quality guidelines, highlighted newly released and most requested datasets, and more. (more)	Oct 1, 2003
	Food and Drug Administration	Establishment and Maintenance of Records Under the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 Final rule requiring the establishment and maintenance of records under the Bioterrorism Act. Includes discussion of changes to the proposed rule, comments on the proposed rule and FDA's responses, the regulatory impact analysis, and more. (more) Publication Date: Thursday, December 9, 2004	Dec 10, 2004
	U.S. Government Accountability Office	Experiences of Seven Countries in Consolidating Their Food Safety Systems Report on the experiences of Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom in consolidating their food safety systems. Includes information on what bodies were responsible for aspects of risk analysis before and after consolidation. Appendices include "Scope and Methodology," "Comments from the Department of Health and Human Services," "Comments from the U.S. Department of Agriculture," information on each of the countries’ consolidations, and more. (more) Publication Month: February 2005	Apr 3, 2005
	Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri	FAPRI U.S. Briefing Books