Making Sense of Recent Cost-of-Foodborne-Illness Estimates
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Three recent studies provide cost-of-foodborne-illness estimates ranging from $14.1 billion to $152 billion. This report shows that differences in these estimates are largely due to the number of diseases considered, the valuation methods used, and uncertainty about disease incidence estimates.
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Credible estimates of the economic burden of foodborne disease in the USA vary from $14 billion to $77 billion, owing to differences in methodology and pathogen coverage.
“credible estimates of the economic burden of FBD in the USA vary from $14 billion to $77 billion, owing to differences in methodology and pathogen coverage (Hoffmann & Anekwe, 2013).”
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- Hoffmann, S., Anekwe, T. D., Hoffmann, S., & Anekwe, T. D.
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Safety and Hygiene
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Keywords
- food poisoning, economic cost of illness, cost estimate, disease incidence, valuation methods, willingness to pay, economic burden of disease
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