One of the major constraints is poor camel health management, which does not give consumers assurance on absence or presence of zoonotic organisms/diseases and other food safety issues.
"This will give consumers assurance that the product is safe, and it gives law enforcement assurance that the product's legal," he said.
But Joseph Mendelson, legal director of the Center for Food Safety, an advocacy group, said the system gave consumers "phony assurances".
Tyson's chief executive, Donald Smith, said in a statement that the company knew that consumers wanted assurances that their food was being produced responsibly.
"Test marks exist for two basic purposes: to satisfy government regulations on the local, state, or national levels, or provide additional consumer product assurance," said John Donaldson, a vice president of the American National Standards Institute, the umbrella group that represents American industry in global standard-setting forums.
Established mainly to reduce trade in illegally logged timber, these certification schemes also aim to provide consumers with assurance that wood products are obtained from sustainably managed forests.
In a similar manner, a Hollywood remake or reboot gives consumers an assurance of quality and stability that if the original franchise has persisted to the current day, then it must still be good.
The authors make a case for a framework for verifiable resource accounting such that a consumer can get assurances about two questions: (i) did I consume what I was charged? and (ii) should I have consumed what I was charged?
Additionally, due to Bank of America's misleading assurances, consumers deferred short-sales and passed on other attempts to mitigate their losses.
