Cost‐Effective Hazard Control in Food Handling
建立了一个生物经济模型，研究食品采后质量控制中干预成本与经济损害之间的权衡，并分析了随机检查和终端检查两种监管方式，以储粮害虫防治为例验证了模型与商业实践的一致性。
Abstract We develop a bioeconomic model to investigate postharvest food quality control. The trade‐off between costly intervention and economic damage is studied when economic parameters, such as fixed and variable costs of control, and biological parameters, such as the stochastic rate of contamination and the growth rate of contaminants, are altered. The model can accommodate alternative environmental settings. Regulations through random inspections and through terminal inspections are analyzed. As an illustration, optimal actions to control insect infestations in stored wheat are simulated and found to be in accord with commercial practice.