Food risk management quality: Consumer evaluations of past and emerging food safety incidents

Health, Risk and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-163

  van Kleef, Ellen ^a   Ueland, Øydis ^b   Theodoridis, Gregory ^c   Rowe, Gene ^d   Pfenning, Uwe ^e   Houghton, Julie ^d   van Dijk, Heleen ^a   Chryssochoidis, George ^c   Frewer, Lynn ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE OF FOOD RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^e Dialogik gGmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consumer evaluations; Food risk management; Food safety; Food safety incidents; Trust

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; YOGHURT;

ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CONSUMER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FISH; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; GERMANY; GREECE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HONEY; MEAT; MOULD; NEMATODE; NORWAY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SALMON; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 67651055427     PISSN: 13698575     EISSN: 14698331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13698570902784265     Document Type: Article

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