Due to growing health and environmental problems related to the overconsumption of meat in western diets, we investigated consumer demand for dishes that reduce or replace beef with: (1) plant-based products that mimic the functionality and taste, (2) authentic plant-based ingredients that just...

The correct understanding of consumers' food labeling knowledge and perceptions is a prerequisite to develop and implement coherent and appropriate food safety policies. One objective of the paper was to discover how often consumers access and use specific food label information. Another...

In this paper we investigate how consumers respond to the UK food label Traffic Light System (TLS). Employing a Choice Experiment (CE) we find that consumers appear to behave in a manner consistent with our expectations regarding the impact of the TLS nutrition label. In particular, we identify...

We examine the impact of food labels that make unsupported claims of food safety and labels that provide information to support such claims on consumer choices and examine consumers’ willingness to pay for beef products with these different food safety labeling cues. Empirical results from a...

The aim of the paper is to identify and compare how Generation Y consumers from the Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Poland perceive the p roduct origin and its labelling in the context of food quality and safety . First, the theoretical background of food quality and safety, product origin,...

The roots of this study lay in the events of 2003 and early 2004 when mad cow/BSE was first discovered in North America (first in Canada in December 2003 and then in the United States in January 2004). To gauge public reaction to the mad cow event and other concerns for food safety, The Hartman...

In 2009, salmonellosis was found in peanut processed by the Peanut Corporation of America, resulting in 714 cases of severe food poisoning from ingesting contaminated peanut butter. In 2010, over 1900 people were hospitalized due to salmonella outbreak from eggs produced in two Iowa farms. Using...

Research on consumer quality perception is reviewed using the Total Food Quality Model as a structuring device. The relationship between food safety and quality is addressed, and is discussed in the context of research on consumer risk perception. Quality and safety perception is linked to food...