Are Organic Food Labels Inadequate? Evidence from Consumers in Australia

Henryks, Joanna; Pearson, David; Anisimova, Tatiana; Sultan, Parves

doi:10.11114/bms.v1i2.808

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“…A good understanding of target consumers and market potential is required when developing any new functional foods or related products (Hamid, Said, & Meiria, 2019;Henryks, Pearson, Anisimova, & Sultan, 2015). While there are numerous studies reviewing either consumer-based literatures, such as perceptions of functional foods or air pollution, or laboratory-based literatures, such as immune-boosting ingredients, research that reviews and integrates findings from these disparate fields is limited.…”

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Immune-Boosting Functional Foods: A Potential Remedy for Chinese Consumers Living Under Polluted Air

Cong¹,

Mirosa²,

Kaye‐Blake³

et al. 2020

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The deterioration of air quality in China has resulted in many people looking for remedies to counteract the impact that air pollution is perceived to be having on their health. As the importance of diet on immune health is becoming increasingly well recognised, a narrative literature review was undertaken to elucidate Chinese consumers’ acceptance of functional food products designed to help the immune system recover from pollution-driven impact and to assess their market potential. Consumers’ attitude towards immune-boosting functional foods were mainly positive, with scientific validation being important in determining the credibility of a product. This was despite the fact that the effectiveness of the functional food products currently in the market that purported to be remedies for pollution-driven impacts on the lung did not appear to be supported by scientific evidence. Numerous studies have reported functional foods could provide a wide range of benefits to immune health, including helping pollution-driven immune issues. This review highlights the market demand for effective and scientifically-proven functional food products that help Chinese consumers’ immune system recover from the impact of air pollution.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Immune-Boosting Functional Foods: A Potential Remedy for Chinese Consumers Living Under Polluted Air

Cong¹,

Mirosa²,

Kaye‐Blake³

et al. 2020

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“…Consumers are generally not satisfied with the availability of information that can guide their purchase decision [15], and arguably, they are especially in a disadvantaged position to judge the potential compromises that the organic certification system creates. Information asymmetry, the gap of information with regard to the quality of organic products between consumers and producers, are expressly severe because of the nature of the products.…”

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Is Organic Labelling Enough? Information Disclosure as Policy Instrument to Empower Consumer Choices

Zhang¹,

Boldt²

2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

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“…One of the most likely explanations is that a truthful track-record of accurate food product information is positively associated with consumer trust (Frewer et al 1996). Conversely, providing unclear or ambiguous food product information on the label is unsatisfactory to consumers (Henryks et al 2015).…”

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“…Table 12 presents the theoretical concepts and supporting literature that was used for coding in this study. Lee et al (2002); Price and Shanks (2005) Insufficient information on food labels Henryks et al (2015) Perceived risk Yeung and Morris (2001b); Yoo et al (2015) Informativeness of traceability systems Chen and Huang (2013); Choe et al (2009) Informativeness of online feedback Park and Lee (2008) Consumer trust in food safety Chen (2008); Poppe and Kjaernes (2003) Purchase intentions Teng and Wang (2015) In the first stage, open coding was applied to identify the concepts related to information on food products that concern consumers most, the perception of trace-back information, perceived risk, information on the Internet, and consumer trust. In the second stage, relationships between concepts were grouped together to develop themes by axial coding.…”

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“…Prior research provides the theoretical basis for this construct: information completeness is defined as no missing information (Lee et al 2002). The incompleteness of information is a dimension of vagueness on food labels (Henryks et al 2015). A set of composite items measuring perceived complete information developed by Lee et al (2002), and perceived incomplete information developed by Henryks et al (2015) are discussed in Appendix 6 and 7 respectively.…”

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Understanding how information facilitates consumer trust in food safety: the cases of Australian and Taiwanese consumers’ perspectives

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The prevalence of food safety concerns has heightened public attention globally. In response, this study seeks to understand whether information transparency matters with the support of traceability systems and online feedback in relation to consumer trust in food safety. This research extends our understanding of consumer trust in food safety and fills a gap in the literature by integrating the extant information systems management and consumer behaviour literatures. The thesis follows a problematisation approach by challenging the predominant focus on labelling information alone positively affecting consumer trust when assessing food safety. This thesis purports that consumers require additional food product-related information besides information provided on food labels.Specifically, that both information about food products provided by traceability systems and positive online feedback provided by other consumers have positive effects on consumer trust in food safety.A model is proposed, which takes into account information about food safety from consumers' perspectives. The proposed model provides insights into information adoption mechanisms that explain consumer perceptions of food labels, traceability systems, and online feedback about food safety.The thesis consists of a two phased methodology combining two qualitative studies with two quantitative studies, hence adopting a mixed method approach. The first qualitative study was aimed at gleaning both consumer and food producer perspectives on food safety. First, consumer perceptions of food safety were explored in relation to various constructs namely; perceived information provided by food labels, traceability systems and online feedback, perceived risk, consumer trust, and purchase intentions. Secondly, these findings were supplemented with perceptions of food safety management systems from a food producer. This qualitative inquiry involved semi-structured in-depth interviews with food consumers (n = 20), and staff of one food producer in Australia. The findings of the qualitative research provide insights into the information adoption mechanisms. Consumers' behaviour to obtain food safety information begins with food labels, then, if needed, traceability systems and online feedback. First consumers read information on food labels; second consumers look for information provided by traceability systems; and lastly consumers search for online feedback to know more about the safety of food products. However, consumers perceive information provided by food labels, traceability systems, and online feedback differently. The findings of the qualitative research informed a conceptual model. The second phase consisted of two quantitative studies which sought to test the conceptual model and examine similarities and differences between two consumer populations. The quantitative research involved the administration of a questionnaire surveys to consumers in Australia (n = 240) and I wish to acknowledge the support through UQ Research Training Scholarship offering ...

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Are Organic Food Labels Inadequate? Evidence from Consumers in Australia

Cited by 7 publications

References 37 publications

Immune-Boosting Functional Foods: A Potential Remedy for Chinese Consumers Living Under Polluted Air

Immune-Boosting Functional Foods: A Potential Remedy for Chinese Consumers Living Under Polluted Air

Is Organic Labelling Enough? Information Disclosure as Policy Instrument to Empower Consumer Choices

Understanding how information facilitates consumer trust in food safety: the cases of Australian and Taiwanese consumers’ perspectives

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