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The economics of 1992: Food
Author(s) -
SWINBANK ALAN
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
nutrition bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.933
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1467-3010
pISSN - 1471-9827
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-3010.1990.tb00059.x
Subject(s) - legislature , competition (biology) , quality (philosophy) , principal (computer security) , business , face (sociological concept) , economics , marketing , food industry , public economics , political science , law , ecology , social science , philosophy , epistemology , sociology , computer science , biology , operating system
Summary Completion of the Internal Market in 1992, or whenever, could have significant economic implications for food consumers and food businesses. Food companies will face greater competition and might be expected to operate on a pan‐European, rather than national, scale. Consumers, it is hoped, will be offered a wider choice of quality food products at lower prices. However, the progression towards a single European economic space is not without its dangers: the principal fears being that consumers could be faced by a bewildering range of quite different, but apparently comparable, products; and that manufacturers could find that their ability to compete effectively against products imported from other member states is constrained by the retention of obsolete national legislative provisions.