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FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 149-156Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2010.09.001
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Consumers; Risk perception; Chemicals; Food; Additives; Contaminants; Natural food
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Consumers express concerns about chemicals in their diet We hypothesized that general positive and negative attitudes toward synthetic chemicals and dose-response insensitivity influence consumers risk perceptions of chemicals in food and preference for natural food We expected gender differences in these domains Data was taken from a postal survey Structural equation modeling was used to test our hypotheses Positive attitudes toward chemicals were correlated negatively and dose-response insensitivity was correlated positively with risk perceptions of chemicals in food Risk perceptions of chemicals in food were positively correlated with preference for natural food For all variables gender differences were observed Our findings show that general attitudes toward chemicals influence perceptions in the food context Consumers dose-response insensitivity might lead to an inappropriate perception of exposure hazards Contaminants and additives in food are perceived differently according to their origin Women are more sensitive than men to chemical exposure hazards (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved
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