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EUROPEAN SOCIETIES
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages 103-129Publisher
ROUTLEDGE TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1461669042000327045
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food safety; trust; Russia; Denmark; Norway
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In this paper we argue that institutional conditions should be taken into consideration when consumers trust in food safety is analysed. Our survey results demonstrate that levels of trust in food safety varies considerably across our three selected countries: Russian consumers expressing the lowest level of trust, Norwegian consumers the highest and Danish consumers expressing levels of trust in food safety which were in between. We find empirical evidence in all countries that consumers trust in food safety is related to their evaluation of how their national food control authorities perform, as well as to what extend they trust market mechanisms to secure food quality. However, while trust in food safety in the Scandinavian countries is more likely to rest on trust in public food control, trust in food safety more often depend on trust in market mechanisms in the St. Petersburg region.
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