Consumer attitudes, underlying perceptions and actions associated with food quality and safety

Journal of Food Products Marketing

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 67-87

  Aakkula, Jyrki ^a   Peltola, Jukka ^a   Maijala, Riitta ^b   Siikamäki, Juha ^c  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Triangle Economic Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude behaviour relationship; Consumer perceptions; Contingent valuation; Food safety; Theory of reasoned action

Indexed keywords

EID: 32644431819     PISSN: 10454446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J038v11n03_05     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (25)

1. Aakkula, J. (1999). Economic value of pro-environmental farming-a critical and decision-making oriented application of the contingent valuation method. Publications 92, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Helsinki.
2. Ajzen, I. (1998). Attitudes, personality and behavior. Chicago, Illinois: The Dorsey Press.
3. Ajzen, I., & Fishbein, M. (1977). Attitude-behavior relations: A theoretical analysis and review of empirical research. Psychological Bulletin, 84 (5), 888-918.
4. Antle, J.M. (2001). Economic analysis of food safety. In B.L. Gardner & G.C. Rausser (Eds.), Handbook of agricultural economics, Vol. 1B, Marketing, distribution, and consumers (pp. 1083-1136). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
5. Böcker, A. (2002). Consumer response to a food safety incident: exploring the role of supplier differentiation in an experimental study. European Review of Agricultural Economics, 29 (1), 29-50.
6. Byrne, D. (2000). Speaking by Commissioner D. Byrne-Conference on nutrition and health in Europe, Paris, 15 December 2000. Retrieved June 12, 2003, from http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/library/speeches/ speech83_en.html
7. Chatfield, C., & Collins, A.J. (1980). Introduction to multivariate analysis. London: Chapman and Hall.
8. Child, D. (1990). Essentials of factor analysis. London: Cassel.
9. European Commission (2000-2001). The 2000-2001 Food Safety Education Campaign. Food Safety, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General, European Commission, Brussels.
10. European Commission (2000a). White paper on food safety. Commission of the European Communities, 12 January 2000, COM (1999) 719 final, Brussels. Retrieved June 10, 2003, from http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/health_consumer/ library/pub/pub06_en.pdf
11. European Commission (2000b). Opinion of the scientific committee on veterinary measures relating to public health on food-borne zoonoses. Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General. Directorate B, Scientific Health Opinions. Unit B3, Management of scientific committees II. Retrieved June 11, 2003, from http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scv/out32_en.pdf
12. Fishbein, M. (1967). Readings in attitude theory and measurement. New York: Wiley.
13. Fishbein, M., & Azjen, I. (1975). Belief, attitude, intention and behaviour: An introduction to theory and research. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
14. Henson, S. (1996). Consumer willingness to pay for reductions in the risk of food poisoning in the UK. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 47 (3), 403-420.
15. Ippolito, P.M., & Mathios, A.D. (1990). Information, advertising, and health choices: A study of the cereal market. RAND Journal of Economics, 21 (3), 459-479.
16. Kangas, S., Lyytikäinen, T., Peltola, J., Ranta, J., & Maijala, R. (2003). Economic impacts of the Finnish Salmonella Control Programme for broilers. EELA publications 02/2003, Helsinki.
17. Krupnick, A.J., & Cropper, M.L. (1992). The effect of information on health risk valuations. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 5(1), 29-48.
18. Künast, R. (2002, September 12). Rethinking agriculture and food. OECD Observer, No. 233.
19. Lin, C-T.J., & Milon, J.W. (1995). Contingent valuation of health risk reductions for shellfish products. In J.A. Caswell (Ed.), Valuing Food Safety and Nutrition (pp. 83-114), Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
20. Maijala, R., Ranta, J., Seuna, E., & Peltola, J. (2003). The efficiency of the Finnish Salmonella Control Programme. Submitted to Food Control, Fall 2003. Available from Jukka Peltola (jukka.peltola@mtt.fi).
21. Maijala, R., & Peltola, J. 2004. Finnish Salmonella Control Program: Viability of food safety policy. A manuscript. Available from Jukka Peltola (jukka.peltola@mtt.fi).
22. Mäntymaa, E. (1997). Essays on environmental benefits and hypotethical markets. Acta Universitatis Ouluensis, Oeconomica, G 2. University of Oulu.
23. Milligan, G.W., & Cooper, M.C. (1985). An examination of procedures for determining the number of clusters in a data set. Psychometrika, 50 (2), 159-179.
24. Peltola, J., Aakkula, J, Maijala, R., & Siikamäki, J. (2001). Valuation of economic benefits from the Finnish Salmonella Control Program. MTT Agrifood Research Finland, Economic Research. Working papers 29/2001. Helsinki.
25. Smith, V.K., & Desvousges, W.H. (1986). Measuring water quality benefits. Boston: Kluwer & Nijhoff.