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- Title
MOTIVATION OF CONSUMERS AND FOOD SAFETY IN HUNGARY.
- Authors
NÓTÁRI, Márta; FERENCZ, Árpád; CZEGLÉDI, Melinda
- Abstract
Food safety plays these days a key role in all segments of food industry. A series of problems affecting the food chain, such as BSE, dioxin contamination and the recent pepper contamination incident, has served to increase consumer anxiety over food quality in Europe over the past few years. EU policies aim to develop a common internal market. Consequently, any food must comply with strict food safety regulations irrespective of the country of origin, which requirement necessitated a more efficient and dynamic food policy as well as complex standard and transparent measures. The main objective of traceability is the exact identification and isolation of the source of any potential contamination, thus enabling the return and withdrawal of such products from the market. Primary questionnaire was used to collect data for the research. The main objectives of our the research are: the importance of traceability assessed; the majority of the respondents thinks that the traceability of a product guarantees high quality, safety and it offers many other benefits as well; a minor segment of the respondents opines that traceability does not guarantee product safety. The results highlighted that threefourth of female consumers and a little less than two-third of male consumers pay attention to the traceability of products that they purchase. The number of consumers making conscious decisions during food purchase is increasing. The majority of the respondents think that the traceability of a product guarantees high quality, safety and it offers many other benefits as well. Traceability consequently guarantees safety.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; FOOD industry; DIOXINS; FOOD contamination; PRODUCT elimination; GROCERY shopping; FOOD traceability
- Publication
Annals of the Faculty of Engineering Hunedoara - International Journal of Engineering, 2012, Vol 10, Issue 3, p35
- ISSN
1584-2665
- Publication type
Article