This chapter provides an overview of the amalgamation of disparate elements that make up the food import regulatory …

Recent efforts to regulate the safety of U.S. food imports have not kept up with the complexity of global trade and the … heightened food safety risks, surging imports, and an outdated food import safety system. While the FSMA provides the Food and … risks that accompany globalization. Congress drafted the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2011 ("FSMA") in response to …

food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our findings suggest that exposure to food …. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a price … imports from the U.S. explains about ten percent of the rise in obesity prevalence among Mexican women between 1988 and 2012 …

the 2015-2025 period. This study, therefore, further investigates food insecurity and food imports in some selected … African countries. The regression results based on the fixed effects model show that food imports, employment in agriculture …It has been envisaged that Sub-Saharan Africa would remain the region with the highest level of food insecurity over …

trading habit persistence. The estimations employ FAO's bilateral food commodity trade database, complemented with importer …

than 4 percent of net food imports over a period of six years for the countries considered, although for some of the larger …This paper attempts to assess the incremental external financing requirements occasioned by changes in world food … on estimates of changes in food prices due to the Round obtained in previous studies, and on detailed data on food trade …