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Emerging Roles for Food Labels;
Inform, Protect, Persuade

Washington, DC -- March 20-21, 2003

The Consumer Response to Food Labeling
Jill J. McCluskey and Maria L. Loureiro

Mandatory Process Based Labeling: To Serve Whom and at What Cost?
Alan McHughen, D.Phil., FACN

Food Labeling and Advertising: Regulatory Issues and Evidence
Pauline M. Ippolito - Federal Trade Commission - January 2003

Food Labeling Challenges in CFSAN
Richard A. Williams, Ph.D. - Director, Division of Market Studies

Defenders of Wildlife
Bill Snape

Retailer Expectations for Country of Origin Labeling
Tim Hammonds - American Agricultural Economics Association Forum

Country-of-Origin Labeling of Beef Products: U.S. Consumers' Perceptions
Wendy Umberger, Colorado State University and Dillon Feuz and Chris Calkins University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Ronald Ward, - University of Florida

The Battle of Taste Buds and Environmental Convictions:
Which Drives Demand for Ecolabeled Seafood?
Cathy A. Roheim and Holger Donath - Professor and Graduate Research Assistant
Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881.

Nutritional Labels, Health Claims, and Consumers' Diets
Rudolfo Nayga - Texas A&M University

Some Economic Implications of Public Labeling
John M. Crespi - Department of Agricultural Economics - Kansas State University
Stéphan Marette - UMR Economie Publique, INRA INAPG, Paris France

The European Food Labeling Policy and Regulation:
How Good Is at Informing, Protecting and Persuading?
Jean-Christophe Bureau - Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon
Egizio Valceschini - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

Marketing of Safe Food through Labeling
Jutta Roosen - Department of Food Economics and Consumption Studies
University of Kiel - Olshausenstr. 40 - 24098 Kiel - Germany

The Role of Advertising, Collective Action and Labeling
in the European Wine Markets
Angelo Zago - Universita' di Verona, Italy