date:Mar 20, 2013
e to its reputation among consumers and the value of its brand.
Fourth, interdependence among certifiers creates incentives for interagency oversight. Within industrial food supply chains, the reputation of finished-product certifiers depends on the reliability of ingredient certifiers who, in turn, require the trust of finished-product certifiers for acceptance of their certification downstream in the product production. The result is that finished-product certifiers scrutinize the operations