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Delisting from EU HACCP certification: Analysis of the Philippine seafood processing industry

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  • Ragasa, Catherine
  • Thornsbury, Suzanne
  • Bernsten, Richard

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This paper employs firm level benefit-cost and supply chain analyses to explore the reasons why a majority of Philippine seafood processing firms discontinued EU HACCP between 2004 and 2005. Results indicate that only 38% of firms remained certified, as they gained significantly from retention of EU markets, gained access to US markets, captured new buyers, and reduced product wastage. However, 62% of the initially certified firms abandoned certification, as they did not realize most of the anticipated benefits from certification and continuing certification was not economically viable. Delisting by some processors led to profit losses among their raw fish and input suppliers amounting to $4-6 million per year, representing approximately 6-9% of the value of Philippine seafood exports to the EU and mainly affecting small aquaculture fish suppliers.

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  • Ragasa, Catherine & Thornsbury, Suzanne & Bernsten, Richard, 2011. "Delisting from EU HACCP certification: Analysis of the Philippine seafood processing industry," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 36(5), pages 693-703, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jfpoli:v:36:y:2011:i:5:p:693-703
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    1. Catherine Ragasa & Suzanne Thornsbury & Satish Joshi, 2017. "Dynamics of EU food safety certification: a survival analysis of firm decisions," Agricultural and Food Economics, Springer;Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA), vol. 5(1), pages 1-25, December.
    2. Israel, Danilo C. & Briones, Roehlano M., 2012. "The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint: Implementation and Effectiveness Assessment for Philippine Agriculture," Discussion Papers DP 2012-18, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
    3. Ragasa, Catherine & Thornsbury, Suzanne & Joshi, Satish, 2013. "Sustainability of EU Food Safety Certification: A survival analysis of firm decisions:," IFPRI discussion papers 1296, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    4. Neeliah, Shalini A. & Neeliah, Harris & Goburdhun, Daya, 2013. "Assessing the relevance of EU SPS measures to the food export sector: Evidence from a developing agro-food exporting country," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 53-62.
    5. Israel, Danilo C. & Briones, Roehlano M., 2012. "The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint: Implementation and Effectiveness Assessment for Philippine Agriculture," Discussion Papers DP 2012-18, Philippine Institute for Development Studies.
    6. Ayushi Srivastava & Kavya Dashora, 2022. "A Fuzzy ISM approach for modeling electronic traceability in agri-food supply chain in India," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 315(2), pages 2115-2133, August.

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