The economic impact of the Food and Drug Administration's Final Juice HACCP Rule

- Examines the economic impact of the Food and Drug Administration's Final Juice Rule.
- Uses 1998-2008 CDC data and difference-in-differences approach.
- Finds Rule reduced juice-bearing product foodborne illnesses by 462-508 per year.
- Reevaluated estimate of Rule's benefits compares favorably to estimated cost.

Using 1998-2008 data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on foodborne illnesses and outbreaks, we examine the economic impact of the Food and Drug Administration's final rule titled “Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP); Procedures for the Safe and Sanitary Processing and Importing of Juice” (the Final Juice Rule). Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that the rule led to an annual reduction of between 462 and 508 foodborne illnesses associated with juice-bearing products. Furthermore, our reevaluated estimate of the rule's benefits compares favorably to its estimated cost.