Consumers’ risk perception, information seeking, and intention to purchase genetically modified food

Zhu, Weiwei; Yao, Nengzhi; Ma, Ben; Wang, Fangbin

doi:10.1108/bfj-11-2017-0622

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“…We used RISP as a reference to construct a conceptual framework of consumers' food safety risk information-seeking intention, and then assessed critical factors of consumers' food safety risk information-seeking intention based on the responses from 774 WeChat users. The main conclusions from this research are as follows: (1) Risk perception is an important variable in predicting people's information-seeking intention, consistent with previous studies [11,15,25]. On the one hand, risk perception has a direct significant positive effect on consumers' information-seeking intention of food safety risk and this effect was more pronounced among the young, male, highly educated, and high-income groups.…”

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“…Risk perception is also perceived hazard characteristics, which is used to describe people's cognitive evaluations of potential risk [15]. High risk perception may increase the uncertainty of consumers, so that they will obtain more information to access the risk, thus stimulating the consumers to search for more information [25,26]. If consumers judge that food safety risk will threaten their personal health or their families' health, they may have a stronger willingness to search for more food safety information in order to cope with risks.…”

Section: Risk Perceptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Food Safety Risk Information-Seeking Intention of WeChat Users in China

Zhao-hui

Paudel

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Consumers’ food safety risk information-seeking behavior plays a vital role in improving their food quality and safety awareness and preventing food safety risks. Based on the Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model (RISP), this paper empirically analyzes the food safety risk information-seeking intention of consumers in WeChat and influencing factors under the impact of food safety incidents. We use data from 774 WeChat users and apply the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach. We also conduct multigroup analysis with demographic characteristics as moderating variables. The results demonstrated that: (1) Risk perception (p ≤ 0.01) has direct significant positive effects on consumers’ intention to seek food safety information. Besides, higher risk perception (p ≤ 0.01) regarding food safety risks will make people feel more anxious and threatened, and then expand the gap between the information they need and the relevant knowledge they actually have (p ≤ 0.1), which will further stimulate them to seek more information (p ≤ 0.05). (2) Informational subjective norms (p ≤ 0.01) can not only directly affect consumers’ information-seeking about food safety, but also indirectly affect consumers’ intention through information insufficiency (p ≤ 0.01). (3) The more consumers trust the relevant channels (p ≤ 0.01), the stronger their intention to search for food safety risk information. Moreover, the multiple-group analysis also shows that the effects of consumers’ gender, age, educational background, and average monthly earnings are different among different groups. Furthermore, implications are put forward for food safety risk communication efforts in China.

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Food Safety Risk Information-Seeking Intention of WeChat Users in China

Zhao-hui

Paudel

Wen

et al. 2020

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“…First, it adds to our theoretical understanding of the factors associated with the formation of attitude towards GMF in China. More importantly, it adds to the relatively few studies that have used theories to examine consumer perceptions of GMF in China (e.g., [13,14]). The study also highlights the usefulness of MSD theory when predicting attitude towards GMF.…”

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“…First, most published studies are from Western countries (e.g., [7,11,12]). Second, few studies in China have used theories to examine factors associated with public perceptions of GMF (e.g., [13,14,15]). Finally, within these theory-based studies, none has incorporated media factors even though genetically modified organisms and food have been a widely covered news topic globally [4,16,17] and in China [15,18,19].…”

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Examining Personal and Media Factors Associated with Attitude towards Genetically Modified Foods among University Students in Kunming, China

Bautista

2019

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Guided by the theory of reasoned action and media system dependency theory, this study examined attitude towards genetically modified foods (GMF) among university students in Kunming, China, as well as personal and media factors related to such attitude. Data were collected from an online survey with 467 university students across eight universities in Kunming. Results showed that attitude towards GMF were more negative than positive. Moreover, food neophobia and media attention were negatively associated with attitude towards GMF. In contrast, perceived benefit was positively associated with attitude towards GMF. Although the interaction between media dependency and media attention was significant, simple slope analysis confirmed that the interaction slopes were nonsignificant, suggesting that media attention did not moderate the association between media dependency and attitude towards GMF in this study. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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“…For instance, Prati et al [21] found that Italian consumers have a weak intention to consume GM foods. However, Zhu et al [22] showed that Chinese consumers are willing to consume GM foods and such willingness is affected by their knowledge of the product and risk perceptions.…”

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Biosafety Issues of Unintended Horizontal Transfer of Recombinant DNA

Alamnie¹,

Andualem²

2020

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Horizontal or lateral gene transfer is the transfer of genetic material from one organism to another organism associated with the unnatural way of reproduction. This way of genetic exchange happens by the stable transfer of genetic material from donor organisms, followed by heritable incorporation to the genome of the recipient organisms. The first explanation of a horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has been a major advance in molecular biology and genetics. Microorganisms like bacteria can acquire genetic material from a variety of sources. The most common DNA transfer mechanisms between microorganisms are conjugation, transformation, and transduction, but there are also other diverse mechanisms of genetic material exchange occurring in nature. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) often contain recombined genes acquired from different species to enable the expression of new traits in even unlikely or unrelated species. For this, the unintended HGT of rDNA to both prokaryotes and eukaryotes could raise biosafety issues to both human and animal health and the environment. From the current scientific perspective and evidence, the unintended HGT from GMOs to other organisms presents negligible risks to human health and safety or the environment due to the rarity of such events relative to those HGT events that occur in nature.

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Consumers’ risk perception, information seeking, and intention to purchase genetically modified food

Cited by 41 publications

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Food Safety Risk Information-Seeking Intention of WeChat Users in China

Food Safety Risk Information-Seeking Intention of WeChat Users in China

Examining Personal and Media Factors Associated with Attitude towards Genetically Modified Foods among University Students in Kunming, China

Biosafety Issues of Unintended Horizontal Transfer of Recombinant DNA

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