Consumer preferences for safety characteristics in pork

British Food Journal

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 775-791

  Mørkbak, Morten Raun ^a   Christensen, Tove ^a   Gyrd Hansen, Dorte ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Consumer research; Food products; Meat; Quality awareness; Safety

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; SALMONELLA;

EID: 77954651693     PISSN: 0007070X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00070701011058299     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Alfnes, F. and Rickertsen, K. (2003), "European consumers' willingness to pay for US beef in experimental auction markets" in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 396-405.
2. Bierlaire, M. (2003), "BIOGEME: a free package for the estimation of discrete choice models", Proceedings of the 3rd Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland.
3. Carlsson, F. and Martinsson, P. (2003), "Design techniques for stated preference methods in health economics" in Health Economics, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 281-94.
4. Carlsson, F., Frykblom, P. and Lagerkvist, C.-J. (2005), "Consumer preferences for food product quality attributes from Swedish agriculture" in Ambio, Vol. 34, Nos 4/5, pp. 366-70.
5. Carlsson, F., Frykblom, P. and Lagerkvist, C.-J. (2007a), "Consumer benefits of labels and bans of GM foods - CEs with Swedish consumers" in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 89, No. 1, pp. 152-61.
6. Carlsson, F., Frykblom, P. and Lagerkvist, C.-J. (2007b), "Farm animal welfare - testing for market failure" in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 61-73.
7. Caswell, J.A. and Mojduszka, E.M. (1996), "Using informational labelling to influence the market for quality in food products" in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 78, pp. 1248-53.
8. Christensen, T., Mørkbak, M., Hasler, B., Lundhede, T., Porsbo, L.J. and Christoffersen, L.B. (2006) in Information, Risk Perception and Consumer Bahaviour - A Choice Experiment on Food Safety and Animal Welfare, Institute of Food and Resource Economics, KVL, Copenhagen, p. 180.
9. Danmap (2000), DANMAP 99 - Consumption of Antimicrobial Agents and Occurrence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacteria from Food Animals, Food and Humans in Denmark, Statens Serum Institut, Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Danish Medicines Agency, Danish Veterinary Laboratory, Copenhagen.
10. Danmap (2007), DANMAP 2006 - Use of Antimicrobial Agents and Occurrence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacteria from Food Animals, Foods and Humans in Denmark, Statens Serum Institut, Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, Danish Medicines Agency, National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen.
11. Goldberg, I. and Roosen, J. (2007), "Scope insensitivity in health risk reduction studies: a comparison of CEs and the contingent valuation method for valuing safer food" in Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Vol. 34, pp. 123-44.
12. Gravelle, H. and Rees, R. (1992), Microeconomics, 2nd ed., Pearson Education, Harlow.
13. Greene, W.H. and Hensher, D.A. (2007), "Heteroscedastic control for random coefficients and error components in mixed logit" in Transportation Research Part E, Vol. 43, No. 5, pp. 610-23.
14. Hald, T. and Brøndsted, T. (2001), Annual Report on Zoonoses in Denmark 2001, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby.
15. Hanley, N., Wright, R.E. and Koop, G. (2002), "Modelling recreation demand using CEs, climbing in Scotland" in Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 22, pp. 449-66.
16. Hayes, D.J., Shogren, J.F., Shin, S.Y. and Kliebenstein, J.B. (1995), "Valuing food safety in experimental auction markets" in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 77, No. 1, pp. 40-53.
17. Helwigh, B. and Hald, T. (2006), Annual Report on Zoonoses in Denmark 2006, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby.
18. Hensher, D.A. and Greene, W.H. (2003), "The mixed logit model: the state of practice" in Transportation, Vol. 30, pp. 133-76.
19. Hess, S., Bolduc, D. and Polak, J.W. (2006), "Random covariance heterogeneity in discrete choice models", paper presented at the 85th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January.
20. Hobbs, J.E., Bailey, D., Dickinson, D.L. and Haghiri, M. (2005), "Traceability in the Canadian red meat sector, do consumers care?" in Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 47-65.
21. Holmes, T. and Adamowicz, W.L. (2003), "Attribute based methods" Champ, P., Boyle, K. and Brown, T. (Eds.), A Primer on the Economic Valuation of the Environment, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht.
22. James, S. and Burton, M. (2003), "Consumer preferences for GM food and other attributes of the food system" in The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 501-18.
23. Käferstein, F.K., Motarjemi, Y. and Bettcher, D.W. (1997), "Foodborne disease control: a transnational challenge", Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol. 3, No. 4.
24. Kontoleon, A. and Yabe, M. (2003), "Assessing the impacts of alternative 'opt-out' formats in CE studies: consumer preferences for genetically modified content and production information in food" in Journal of Agricultural Policy Research, Vol. 5, pp. 1-43.
25. Korsgaard, H., Wegner, H.C. and Helms, M. (2005), "Samfundsomkostninger forbundet med zoonotiske Salmonella- og andre fødevarebårne bakterielle infektioner i Danmark" in Ugeskrift for læger, February, pp. 760-3.
26. Lagerkvist, C.-J., Carlsson, F. and Viske, D. (2006), "Swedish consumer preferences for animal welfare and biotech: a choice experiment" in AgBioForum, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 51-8.
27. Lancaster, K.J. (1966), "A new approach to consumer theory" in The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. 132-57.
28. Loureiro, M.L. and Umberger, W.J. (2007), "A choice experiment model for beef, what US consumer responses tell us about relative preferences for food safety, country of origin labeling and traceability" in Food Policy, Vol. 32, pp. 496-514.
29. Louviere, J., Hensher, D.A. and Swait, J. (2000), Stated Choice Methods: Analysis and Applications, University Press, Cambridge.
30. Luce, R.D. (1959), Individual Choice Behaviour, Wiley, New York, NY.
31. Lusk, J., Norwood, B. and Pruitt, J.R. (2006), "Consumer demand for a ban on antibiotic drug use in pork production" in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 88, No. 4, pp. 1015-33.
32. McFadden, D. (1974), "Conditional logit analysis of qualitative choice behavior" in Zarembka, P. (Ed.), Frontiers in Econometrics, Academic Press, New York, NY, pp. 105-42.
33. Meuwissen, M.P.M. and van der Lans, I.A. (2005), "Trade-offs between consumer concerns: an application for pork supply chains" in Food Economics, Vol. 2, pp. 27-34.
34. Mørkbak, M., Christensen, T. and Gyrd-Hansen, D. (2009), "Valuation of food safety in meat - a review of stated preference studies" in Food Economics, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 63-74.
35. Rowe, R.D., Schulze, W.D. and Breffle, W.S. (1996), "CVM, payment card: a test for payment card biases" in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 31, pp. 178-85.
36. Ruby, M.C., Johnson, F.R. and Mathews, K.E. (1998), "Just say no, opt-out alternatives and anglers' stated preferences", Triangle Economic Research, Durham, NC, TER General Working Paper No. T-9801R.
37. Technology Council (1998), Salmonella - resumé og udskrift af høring i Folketinget den 11. november 1998 (Salmonella - Summery of the Danish Parliament Hearing - 11 November 1998), Technology Council, Hørsholm.
38. Train, K. (2003), Discrete Choice Methods with Simulation, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
39. Umberger, W.J. and Feuz, D.M. (2004), "The usefulness of experimental auctions in determining consumers' willingness-to-pay for quality-differentiated products" in Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 170-85.
40. WHO (2009), Food Safety and Foodborne Illnesses. Fact Sheet 237, WHO's Health & Safety Information Service's, Geneva, revised March 2007.