Economies of capacity use in decontamination of pig carcasses

TY - JOUR

T1 - Economies of capacity use in decontamination of pig carcasses

AU - Jensen, Jørgen Dejgård

AU - Lawson, Lartey Godwin

AU - Lund, Mogens

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - This article analyzes the economies of capacity use regarding hot water decontamination to reduce postslaughter risk of pathogens in meat, taking interfarm heterogeneities of Salmonella risk and costs of transportation into account, using Denmark as a case study. If risk reduction goals are stated at the processing plant level, then the exploitation of the favorable cost-effectiveness properties of hot water slaughtering requires fairly ambitious risk reduction goals and thus high use of decontamination capacity. If instead risk reduction goals are formulated for the sector as a whole, the cost-effectiveness properties can be exploited even for relatively low-risk reduction goals.

AB - This article analyzes the economies of capacity use regarding hot water decontamination to reduce postslaughter risk of pathogens in meat, taking interfarm heterogeneities of Salmonella risk and costs of transportation into account, using Denmark as a case study. If risk reduction goals are stated at the processing plant level, then the exploitation of the favorable cost-effectiveness properties of hot water slaughtering requires fairly ambitious risk reduction goals and thus high use of decontamination capacity. If instead risk reduction goals are formulated for the sector as a whole, the cost-effectiveness properties can be exploited even for relatively low-risk reduction goals.

KW - ???Fødevareøkonomi???

KW - capacity use

KW - decontamination

KW - costs

KW - spatial economics

M3 - Journal article

SN - 1074-0708

VL - 45

SP - 125

EP - 138

JO - Journal of Agricultural & Applied Economics

JF - Journal of Agricultural & Applied Economics

IS - 1

ER -