Food risks and consumer trust. Avian influenza and the knowing and non-knowing on UK shopping floors

Appetite

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 671-678

  de Krom, Michiel P M M ^a,b   Mol, Arthur P J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Consumers; Food risks; Non knowing; Trust; UK

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CONSUMER; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EPIDEMIC; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SHOPPING; TRUST; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FOOD SAFETY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEAT PRODUCTS; RISK; TRUST;

EID: 78649451370     PISSN: 01956663     EISSN: 10958304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2010.09.022     Document Type: Article

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