Assessing the cost barrier for small and medium food processing businesses to meet Preventive Controls for Human Foods standards.

ABSTRACT: The Preventive Controls for Human Food Rule regulation under the Food Safety Modernization Act sets new food safety standards. Both food safety educators and small and medium sized food processing businesses that manufacture certain value-added or processed foods lack knowledge regarding costs to prepare, implement, and manage ongoing food safety practices under the new standards. Current food safety training materials do not acknowledge costs or provide content addressing potential costs, and food safety educators do not have information needed to guide development of relevant materials that address costs. We combine economics and food science principles and use mixed methods to identify and estimate cost barriers for food processing businesses through an interdisciplinary research and ex

SUBMITTER: Fitzsimmons JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11398691 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature