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 United States Department of Agriculture's proposed and final rules to reduce the incidence of Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) in ready‐to‐eat meat and poultry products. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach, we find that these rules together reduced meat‐related Lm illnesses by about 60 per year, which we attribute to reductions in both the number and average size of meat‐related Lm outbreaks. We then monetize this illness reduction using an underreporting and underdiagnosis multiplier of 2.3 and an estimate of the mean cost of a Lm illness of $1.5 million and find that these rules generated about $208 million per year in cost savings, which compares favorably to the rules’ estimated annual cost of roughly $22 million. [EconLit citations: I18, Q18].

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对美国农业部减少即食肉类和家禽产品中李斯特菌病的政策的评估

利用疾病控制与预防中心收集的1998-2008年食源性疾病和暴发数据，我们研究了美国农业部拟议的最终法规对降低单核细胞增生李斯特菌（Lm）发生率的建议的经济影响。食用肉类和家禽产品。使用差异方法，我们发现这些规则每年共减少了约60种与肉相关的Lm疾病，这归因于与肉相关的Lm暴发的数量和平均大小的减少。然后，我们使用报告不足和诊断不足的乘数2.3以及Lm的平均费用估算值，将这种疾病的减少货币化疾病150万美元，发现这些规则每年可节省约2.08亿美元的成本，与该规则估计的每年约2,200万美元的成本相比，这是有利的。[EconLit引文：I18，问题18]。