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International trade regulation and food safety: the case of Italian imports of fruit and vegetables from Southern Mediterranean Countries

Rivista di Economia Agraria

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Title International trade regulation and food safety: the case of Italian imports of fruit and vegetables from Southern Mediterranean Countries
 
Creator Malorgio, Giulio
Grazia, Cristina
Camanzi, Luca
 
Subject Fruit and Vegetables
International Trade
Food Safety Regulation
Southern Mediterranean Countries
 
Description The paper focuses on the implications entailed by the current EU food safety regulation on Italian firms importing fresh fruit and vegetables from Southern Mediterranean Countries. Its specific objectives are to identify the main benefits and difficulties of compliance with food safety regulation perceived by domestic operators and to provide recommendations on suitable policy intervention tools. The study was developed in three steps. Firstly, we provided an overall assessment of the compliance capacity of fruit and vegetables imported from Southern Mediterranean Countries, by means of secondary data gathered from the European Food Security Agency and the Italian Ministry of Health. Secondly, we formulated a set of research hypotheses on the main factors affecting compliance capacity according to the relevant scientific literature. Thirdly, based on these hypotheses, we carried out a direct survey on key players involved in fruit and vegetable imports in Italy, using a Delphi approach.
 
Publisher Firenze University Press
 
Date 2016-08-06
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/rea/article/view/9857
10.13128/REA-18632
 
Source Italian Review of Agricultural Economics; Vol. 71 No. 1 (2016): Vol 71, No 1 (Suppl.) (2016); 116-125
2281-1559
0035-6190
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/rea/article/view/9857/9854