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Analysis of the Consumers' Awareness and Information Need for Food Safety -Focused on irradiated foods and environmental hormones-  

Kim, Hyo-Chung (Dept. of Family & Consumer Sciences, Inje University)
Kim, Mee-Ra (Dept. of Food Science & Nutrition, Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture / v.17, no.2, 2002 , pp. 153-164 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examined the consumers' awareness and information need toward the irradiated foods and environmental hormones. The data were collected from 350 adults living in Daegu and Busan by the self-administered questionnaire. Frequencies and chi-square tests were conducted by SPSS. The results of the survey were as follows: (1) consumers' awareness regarding the irradiated foods and environmental hormones were low, while consumers' concerns for them were high, (2) the orders of the information needs for the irradiated foods are safety of irradiated foods, dose permitted for food irradiation, benefits of irradiated foods, kinds of permitted irradiated foods, and legislations of food irradiation, and (3) the orders of the information needs for the environmental hormones are harmfulness of environmental hormones, standards for contamination by environmental hormones, materials releasing environmental hormones, methods to prevent environmental hormones, and kinds of environmental hormones.
Keywords
consumers' awareness; consumers' information need; irradiated foods; environmental hormones;
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