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标题：Separate Decision-Making for Supermarket Leaders and Followers: The Case of Whether or Not to Offer Irradiated Ground Beef
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作者：Jaenicke, Edward C. ; Chikasada, Mitsuko
期刊名称：Journal of Food Distribution Research
印刷版ISSN：0047-245X
出版年度：2006
卷号：37
期号：3
出版社：Food Distribution Research Society
摘要：From May 2002 to June 2003, at least 32 supermarket chains announced they would begin offering a fresh irradiated ground beef product packaged under a supermarket’s own name. The first announcement, by Rochester, N.Y.-based Wegmans Food Markets, came more than two years after the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration gave final approvals allowing irradiation of fresh and frozen red meat to reduce food-borne pathogens such as E. coli (O157:H7).1 In the two years prior to Wegmans’ announcement, the only irradiated red meat products available in stores were boxed and branded frozen ground beef patties. A single company, SureBeam Corp., provided the irradiation technology first for the frozen patties and then for the fresh product adopted by Wegmans and the other 31 supermarket chains.2 After June 2003, supermarket adoption announcements stopped, and soon after, in January 2004, SureBeam declared bankruptcy and began liquidating itself under Chapter 7. Two years later, in January 2006, the only irradiated meat products found in stores are again branded frozen ground beef patties.