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The Economics of Food Labeling By Elise Golan, Fred Kuchler, Lorraine Mitchell, Cathy Greene, Jessup Amber ERS Elsewhere No. 0112, June 2001 The Economics of Food Labeling describes the economic rationale behind private food labeling and government regulation of food labeling. It illustrates the application of economic principles through three case studies in which the government has intervened in private market labeling decisions (nutrition content, dolphin-safe tuna, and organic) and two examples in which government intervention has been proposed (country-of-origin and biotech). Keywords: labeling, information policy, nutrition labeling and education act, dolphin-safe tuna, national organic standards, country-of-origin labels, biotech food labeling Get this document in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. web administration: webadmin@ers.usda.gov page updated: January 4, 2002

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