3. Food safety compliance for high value markets provides
lessons for future efforts in developing countries
As new food safety regulations were implemented in the 1990s
in high income countries, concerns emerged about the impact of
these standards on developing country exporters. In concert with
new regulations, the growth areas for high value exports were in
perishable products that posed more challenges for food safety
management (Unnevehr, 2000). In developing countries, efforts to
improve food safety have been focused on market access requirements associated with high value products, particularly exports.
Most policy concerns as well as the economics literature have
addressed these market access issues for exports to high income
countries.