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Choosing Certifiers: Evidence from the British Retail Consortium Food Safety Standard

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  • Talia Bar
  • Yuqing Zheng

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Standards play a vital role in promoting food safety, and in many countries third-party certification bodies carry out audits to determine if food manufacturers comply with a particular standard. Using data from the British Retail Consortium global standards program, we study manufacturers’ choices of certification bodies. We take a certification body’s share of high audit grades in the months preceding an audit as a measure of perceived leniency, and find that manufacturers are more likely to choose certification bodies that they perceive to be more lenient. Manufactures are also more likely to choose geographically closer certification bodies, and to return to the same certifier that audited their site in the previous year.

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  • Talia Bar & Yuqing Zheng, 2019. "Choosing Certifiers: Evidence from the British Retail Consortium Food Safety Standard," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 101(1), pages 74-88.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:101:y:2019:i:1:p:74-88.
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    1. Shufen Tang & Yuqing Zheng & Taiping Li & Li Zhou, 2021. "The hold‐up problem in China's broiler industry: Empirical evidence from Jiangsu Province," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 69(4), pages 539-554, December.
    2. Lijiao Hu & Yuqing Zheng & Timothy A. Woods & Yoko Kusunose & Steven Buck, 2023. "The market for private food safety certifications: Conceptual framework, review, and future research directions," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 45(1), pages 197-220, March.
    3. John Bovay, 2023. "Food safety, reputation, and regulation," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 45(2), pages 684-704, June.
    4. Annalisa Zezza & Federica Demaria & Tiziana Laureti & Luca Secondi, 2020. "Supervising third-party control bodies for certification: the case of organic farming in Italy," Agricultural and Food Economics, Springer;Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA), vol. 8(1), pages 1-14, December.
    5. Samane Zare & Mahdi Asgari & Timothy Woods & Yuqing Zheng, 2020. "Consumer proximity and brand loyalty in craft soda marketing: A case study of Ale‐8‐One," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 36(4), pages 522-541, October.
    6. Yuqing Zheng & Talia Bar, 2023. "Certifier competition and audit grades: An empirical examination using food safety certification," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 45(1), pages 182-196, March.
    7. Bahalou Horeh, Marziyeh & Elbakidze, Levan, 2020. "Economic Efficiency of Food Safety Modernization Act: Preventing Illnesses from Contaminated Water," 2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri 304637, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.

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