Consumers of Seafood: Changing Consumption Patterns, Trade and Associated Changes in Risk Exposure

Helen H. Jensen ()

Staff General Research Papers from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper addresses major trends that affect seafood consumption and the market for seafood products and the implications of these changes for consumer risk exposure to food safety hazards. The current economic environment highlights similarities and differences between the developed and developing countries, as well as diversity worldwide in consumption of seafood. Within this context, four major trends affect consumer consumption of foods, including seafood and fish products today: rising income; changing demographics; changing markets for food; and an increasingly global market for food products. These trends have affected consumer risk exposure to food safety problems in seafood.

Keywords: food safety; seafood; food safety risks; consumer demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-10-20

Published in Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2006, Vol. 53, No. 10-12, pp. 591-598.

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