Consumer Habits of Food Supplements from the Perspective of Food Safety

Consumer Perceptions Of Food Safety

Strategic Implications of Consumer Food Safety Preferences

This study examines the tradeoffs consumers are willing to make relative to food safety attributes and other product attributes, such as quality and price, and develops implications for both the government and private sector firms. Conjoint analysis was used to elicit consumers’ preferences for fresh Red Delicious apples. The attributes studied include price, product quality as depicted by the ...

Food Safety: Old Habits, New Perspectives

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Competence of Public Institutions in Food Safety Control: A Consumer Perception Survey in Ghana

Background: Ensuring food safety and minimizing risks require coordinated efforts of various institutions. The objective of this study was to determine how Ghanaian consumers score the competence of public institutions in controlling food safety risks and the effects of this perceived score on their level of concerns about food safety risks. Methods: Totally, semi-structured questionnaire admi...

Food Safety and Consumer Choice Policy

A gricultural biotechnology has the potential to help address a wide range of public health, nutritional, agricultural, and environmental problems in developed and developing countries, as described in a wide variety of scientific (NRC 1985), government (Glickman 1999), industry (Council for Biotechnology Information n.d.), and international (Persley and Lantin 2000; FAO 2003) sources. Despite ...