Risk Management and Economics

Format	Author(s)	Title / Description	Date added	Details
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	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
	McLaughlin, Cristina	Common Misperceptions of Cost/Benefit Analysis for Public and Private Decision Making This presentation discusses common misperceptions of cost/benefit analysis for public and private decision making. It was presented at the 2007 IRAC-sponsored Public Conference 'Risk Assessment, Economic Analysis, and Foodborne Illness Regulations'. All the agenda and presentation information can be found from this link. (more) Publication Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2007	Dec 4, 2007
	Media Centre, World Health Organization	Cost of Diabetes This fact sheet discusses the direct, indirect, and intangible costs of diabetes, as well as some primary and secondary prevention measures. (more) Publication Month: September 2002	Nov 12, 2003

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