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| Honey Safety Standards and Its Impacts on China's Honey Export |
| WEI Guo-xue, HUANG Ji-kun , YANG Jun |
| 1.Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100101, P.R.China |
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摘要 Food safety standard draws increasing concerns on agricultural trade throughout the world. This paper aims to assess the impact of maximum residual limit standard (MRL) of chloromycetin on honey exporting from China. To achieve this objective, the paper discusses the trends of China’s honey production and export practices, analyzes changes on MRL of chloromycetin adopted by major importing countries, and use a gravity model to estimate the impact of MRL of chloromycetin on China’s honey export. The results show that despite the rapid growth of China’s honey production, honey export has declined significantly since 2000. The major reason of declining honey export was mainly due to the more stringent food safety standards indicated by MRL of chloromycetin imposed by importing countries on their honey imports.
Abstract Food safety standard draws increasing concerns on agricultural trade throughout the world. This paper aims to assess the impact of maximum residual limit standard (MRL) of chloromycetin on honey exporting from China. To achieve this objective, the paper discusses the trends of China’s honey production and export practices, analyzes changes on MRL of chloromycetin adopted by major importing countries, and use a gravity model to estimate the impact of MRL of chloromycetin on China’s honey export. The results show that despite the rapid growth of China’s honey production, honey export has declined significantly since 2000. The major reason of declining honey export was mainly due to the more stringent food safety standards indicated by MRL of chloromycetin imposed by importing countries on their honey imports.
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Received: 12 May 2011
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| Fund: The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX1-YW-09-04, KACX1- YW-0906) and the European Community (227202, NTMIMPACT; 044255, SSPE). |
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Corresponding Authors:
Correspondence HUANG Ji-kun, Tel: +86-10-64889833, Fax: +86-10-64856533, E-mail: jkhuang.ccap@igsnrr.ac.cn
E-mail: jkhuang.ccap@igsnrr.ac.cn
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Cite this article:
WEI Guo-xue, HUANG Ji-kun , YANG Jun.
2012.
Honey Safety Standards and Its Impacts on China's Honey Export. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 12(4): 684-693.
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