Consumers' behaviour towards food safety: A litterature review

Maria Aguiar Fontes, Eric Giraud-Héraud and Alexandra Seabra Pinto
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Maria Aguiar Fontes: CIISA - Centro de Investigaçao Interdisciplinar em Sanidade Animal - Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária - Technical University of Lisbon
Eric Giraud-Héraud: X-DEP-ECO - Département d'Économie de l'École Polytechnique - X - École polytechnique - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris, INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Alexandra Seabra Pinto: UEIS - SAFSV - National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinarian Research I.P.

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Abstract: This paper deals with the actual expectations of consumers on food safety and their predictable behaviour in case of foodborne outbreaks. We present an overview of the purchase process for risky products and we show the reason why the consumer has a specific behaviour with respect to the sanitary risk. Moreover, by taking the results of different works that focused these effects in the meat and fruit & vegetables sectors, we show how the real quality signals on the European market (organic production, designation of origin, private retail labels, etc.) could promote consumer confidence.

Keywords: Food Safety; Consumers' Behaviour; Risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-12-02
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