Economic Incentives to Supply Safe Chicken to the National School Lunch Program

by Michael Ollinger, John Bovay, Casiano Benicio, and Joanne Guthrie

This report examines the food safety performance of producers supplying raw chicken to the National School Lunch Program through the Agricultural Marketing Service to determine if reputation is enough incentive for producers to supply safe food.

Keywords: Food safety, chicken, Salmonella, National School Lunch Program, regulation, probit analyses

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