Innovative Food Packaging, Food Quality and Safety, and Consumer Perspectives

Innovative Food Packaging Solutions

The Institute of Food Technologists has issued this Scientific Status Summary to inform readers of recent innovations in food packaging materials.

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 quality and safety: consumer perception and demand

Research on consumer quality perception is reviewed using the Total Food Quality Model as a structuring device. The relationship between food safety and quality is addressed, and is discussed in the context of research on consumer risk perception. Quality and safety perception is linked to food choice and consumer demand, addressing questions of price perception and the validity of willingness-...

Application of Innovative Technologies for Improved Food Quality and Safety

1Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Greek Agricultural Organization Demeter, 14123 Athens, Greece 3Department of Food Studies and Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida ...

Food Quality and Safety