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Economies of Capacity Use in Decontamination of Pig Carcasses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Jørgen Dejgård Jensen ,
Lartey Godwin Lawson  and
Mogens Lund
Jørgen Dejgård Jensen
Affiliation:
Institute of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lartey Godwin Lawson
Affiliation:
Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Business, Management University of Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
Mogens Lund
Affiliation:
Institute of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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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.

Keywords

capacity usedecontaminationcostsspatial economicsD24Q13R12
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 125 - 138
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2013

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