ABSTRACT
As food safety analysts, our goal is to identify food safety improvements that have the greatest net benefit to society. Other chapters in this volume examine emerging knowledge about the sources and incidence of foodborne risks. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the costs of reducing those risks. Our goal is to identify where food safety can be improved with least cost to society, as a step toward finding improvements with the lowest cost–benefit ratios. Such analysis is a fundamental part of regulatory decision making.
