Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture (한국식생활문화학회지)

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

소비자의 식품 안전성에 대한 인지도 및 정보요구도에 관한 분석 -방사선조사 식품과 환경호르몬을 중심으로-

  • Kim, Hyo-Chung (Dept. of Family & Consumer Sciences, Inje University) ;
  • Kim, Mee-Ra (Dept. of Food Science & Nutrition, Kyungpook National University)
  • 김효정 (인제대학교 가족.소비자학과) ;
  • 김미라 (경북대학교 식품영양학과)
  • Published : 2002.02.28
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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.

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