Consumers' Food Safety Perceptions in Three Mediterranean Countries

IF 1.2 4区经济学 Q3 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

New Medit Pub Date : 2022-12-19 DOI:10.30682/nm2204f

N. Bouranta, Evangelos L. Psomas, Nicola Casolani Carmen Jaca, L. Liberatore

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Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate and compare consumers' food safety perceptions in three Mediterranean countries (Greece, Italy, and Spain). A survey was carried out based on a structured questionnaire focusing on food safety-related issues concerning food characteristics, the labeling of systems implemented by food companies such as the Quality Management System and the Food Safety Management System, consumer trust in the food supply chain, and consumer illusion of food control. Information was collected from individuals located in those three countries (2,664 respondents), which share common characteristics. The results indicate that there is a significant heterogeneity in consumers' food safety perceptions in the three countries. The Spanish sample has the greatest level of trust in the supply chain in terms of food safety and the highest level of illusion of food control. The Italians evaluate the food characteristics and the QMS-FSMS's labeling higher than the Spanish and the Greeks. This multinational study brings to light the different types of food safety concerns of consumers from three Mediterranean countries.

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三个地中海国家消费者的食品安全认知

本研究的目的是调查和比较三个地中海国家（希腊、意大利和西班牙）的消费者对食品安全的看法。本次调查以结构化问卷为基础，重点关注食品安全相关问题，包括食品特性、食品公司实施的质量管理体系和食品安全管理体系等系统的标签、消费者对食品供应链的信任以及消费者对食品控制的幻想。信息是从这三个国家的个人（2664名受访者）那里收集的，他们有着共同的特点。结果表明，这三个国家的消费者对食品安全的认知存在显著的异质性。西班牙样本在食品安全方面对供应链的信任程度最高，对食品控制的幻想程度最高。意大利人对食物特性和QMS-FSMS标签的评价高于西班牙人和希腊人。这项跨国研究揭示了来自三个地中海国家的消费者对食品安全的不同担忧。

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New Medit AGRICULTURE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

CiteScore

2.00

自引率

30.00%

发文量

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： New Medit is an applied economics journal, with a multidisciplinary approach, aimed at providing insights into the economic and the social transformations of agro-food sector, rural societies as well as local development and bioeconomy in the Mediterranean Basin. Manuscripts submitted to NEW MEDIT generally should deal with wide-ranging topics that can be extended to other countries where organisational, production and market conditions and the related development policies may emerge at the corporate or regional level.