We use FDA surveys on awareness of diet-disease relationships to estimate a probability model of awareness. We apply the model to respondents of USDA's 1985-88 food consumption surveys to estimate a predicted probability of awareness, an explanatory variable in the multivariate analysis of fat...

The demand for dairy products shifted during the past decade to items with less fat. This, along with a dairy surplus, has led to a generic advertising campaign by the industry. Consumers have responded by increasing dairy product purchases, while changes in the provisions of the dairy support...

World fresh vegetable trade increased more than fourfold between 1962 and 1982. The major trading areas include virtually the entire world- Latin America, the United States, Canada, the European Community, the Middle East, the Far East, Africa, and the non-EC Western European nations. An...