Health Consciousness, Food Safety Concern, and Consumer Purchase Intentions Toward Organic Food: The Role of Consumer Involvement and Ecological Motives

Food quality and safety––consumer perception and public health concern

Food safety has become an important food quality attribute within the last decade. In 2002, we conducted a consumer survey with 449 subjects in Kiel to determine actual consumer perceptions to food quality and safety. We compared these data with our former consumer surveys in Kiel. Over the past decade food quality is perceived to have improved. Regarding to food related health risks, the feeli...

Food safety risks and consumer health.

The major food safety risks are not eating a healthy diet, and failure to avoid foodborne illness. Over one billion people in the world suffer from food insecurity and malnutrition. Nutritionally enhanced transgenic crops such as Golden Rice are one potential strategy for reducing malnutrition in the world. Transgenic crops are subjected to a rigorous pre-market safety assessment. The safety of...

Organic food: Exploring purchase frequency to explain consumer behaviour

In order to identify some barriers preventing expansion of the organic food market, this paper reviews current literature on consumers’ buying behaviour. This reveals low levels of actual purchasing, yet fails to provide conclusive evidence regarding the reasons. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether an analysis that ‘unbundles’ the homogenous organic consumer based on frequency of pu...

Consumer Perceptions Of Food Safety

Demographic and psychographic associations of consumer intentions to purchase healthier food products

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the associations of nutrition concerns, demographics, universalism (community oriented) values, perceived control over personal health and food buying, and perceived influence over the food system with intentions to purchase low fat, sugar and salt (LFSS) food products. METHODS A national online survey of 2204 Australian consumers administered in November 201...