A Study on Deterring Policies of Dead Hog Illegal Marketing in Taiwan
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Fan, Yu-Ping
Abstract
Pork is an important protein food to Taiwanese, the safety quality is very related to Taiwanese’s health. Due to pork is easily contaminated with pathogens and events of dead hog illegal reproduce to pork, it is important to improve the quality of pork safety management for Taiwanese’s health. This research first found out the laws related the production and marketing of pork safety and the pork safety programs to understand the Taiwan’s pork safety system, then found out the solution of dead hog illegal marketing .With food safety, pollution improvment and crime economics literatures review, this research collected firm characteristics to set up the illegal production model of hog farms and tested what kind of policy was suited for deterring crime of dead hog marketing. his research collected some data of social, economics and firms characteristics from government web sites and yearly inguiries. Due to some data may be censored , this research introduced the truncated model and the tobit model to regress crime supply variable on social, economics and firms characteristics variables, and found out crimes could be prohibited by decreasing the number of medium hogs farms, stabilizing price of hog and increasing monitoring effort. This research also found that area of higher income would attract illegal marketing, and dead hog marketing became an underground industry. o discuss the effectness of pork safety policy, both economic incentives and the direct orders control methods could improve pork safety, however supervisors too less to make more improvement. Dead hog insurance policy needed to check insurance payment to match dead hog collecting procedure, increased hog farm inspections and stabilized price of hog to control amount of hogs could deter dead hog crime. When government set up policy of extending hog farm scale, more farm labor input needed to deal with dead hog to improve pork safety.
Subjects
food safety
hog dying of disease
Tobit model
truncated model
crime
Type
thesis
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