The impacts of information about the risks and benefits of pork consumption on Chinese consumers' perceptions towards, and intention to eat, pork

Meat Science

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 766-772

  Verbeke, Wim ^a   Liu, Rongduo ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b East China Normal University   (China)

Author keywords

China; Communication; Consumer; Information; Pork; Risk benefit communication

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; RISK PERCEPTION; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

CHINA; CONSUMER; INFORMATION; PORK; RISK BENEFITS;

MEATS; COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CHINA; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; PIG; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK; SWINE;

EID: 84905683191     PISSN: 03091740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meatsci.2014.07.023     Document Type: Article

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