Economics applied to food safety

Focker, M.; Fels-Klerx, HJ van der

doi:10.1016/j.cofs.2020.10.018

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“…The food product‐harm crisis can cause serious financial damage not only to competing brands but also to the entire industry, including products, consumers, farmers and retailers (Focker & van der Fels‐Klerx, 2020). For example, romaine lettuce Escherichia coli outbreaks in Arizona in 2018 lowered romaine sales by 20% with the iceberg (19%) and red leaf lettuce (16%) during the week the news broke, and that became 45% after a month with 60% of prices down (Gray, 2018).…”

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Moving beyond negative spillover: The positive consequences of an innocent brand's responses to another brand's crisis

Chang

2023

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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This study investigated (a) the negative spillover effects of brand's food‐safety crisis on an entire industry, dominant and nondominant innocent brands in the same product, and (b) the impacts of the innocent brand's response on the responded brand and the entire industry. The study conducted a 2 (market position: dominant vs. nondominant) × 2 (response: no‐response vs. response) between‐subjects design with one additional control group. The findings showed that the negative impact of the dominant brand's crisis spilled over only to nondominant brands, but the innocent brand's response served to overcome the negative effect by recovering the consumer's deteriorated beliefs about the brand and its products to the pre‐crisis level. However, the innocent brand's response did not significantly affect the industry.

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Moving beyond negative spillover: The positive consequences of an innocent brand's responses to another brand's crisis

Chang

2023

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

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“…Despite of a consistent preference by consumers for safe food (Chousou and Mattas, 2021; Li et al. , 2020) and a recognition that the costs of foodborne diseases are a substantial burden to societies (Focker and van der Fels-Klerx, 2020), foodborne illness outbreaks are a pervasive problem within the food system and produce “significant impacts” on public health (Gizaw, 2019). For example, in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that “each year 48 million people [or about one in ten persons] get sick from a foodborne illness, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020, n.p.).…”

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Food safety and cognitive biases: what we know, what we need to know, and why

James

Segovia

Giwa-Daramola

2023

BFJ

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PurposeThe authors review the small but growing literature linking cognitive biases to food safety problems and foodborne illness outbreaks.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a search of peer-reviewed articles utilizing empirical methods published since the year 2000 focusing on food safety or foodborne illnesses/outbreaks and cognitive biases.FindingsThe authors find that most research is conducted at the consumer side of the food system, with few studies examining the potential problems that can arise in the production and processing of food. The authors also observe that most research tends to focus on a few cognitive biases.Originality/valueThis is the most comprehensive study to date examining insights from the literature on cognitive biases and the related discipline of behavioral economics to the specific problem of foodborne illness outbreaks and food safety problems.

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“…"Safer food saves lives" is the sentence that introduces a document published by the World Health Organization (WHO) [1] on the global burden of foodborne diseases (FBD). In addition to the FBD burden on the population's health and economy [2][3][4], consumers want to feel safe while eating. In its different spheres, the government must ensure that the food available for consumption meets safety standards.…”

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What Motivates Consumer Food Safety Perceptions and Beliefs? A Scoping Review in BRICS Countries

Zanetta

Mucinhato

Hakim

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Foods

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This scoping review aimed to map the main evidence in the existing literature regarding consumer perceptions and beliefs regarding food safety in the context of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries. Articles were searched in the Web of Science, Scopus, and SciELO databases. The last search was performed on November 2021. Only the studies conducted within BRICS countries were included. The synthesis aimed to group similarities in consumer beliefs and perceptions of food safety. After screening, 74 eligible articles were included in the study. Of the 74 studies analyzed, 49 (66.2%) were carried out in China, 14 (18.9%) in Brazil, 5 (6.8%) in India,4 (5.4%) in South Africa, and 2 (2.7%) in Russia. Thirty-three motivators of perceptions and beliefs regarding food safety were identified. Food safety motivators were grouped into three categories: (1) sociodemographic characteristics, (2) cognitive aspects, and (3) other. In the “sociodemographic characteristics” category, the motivator with the highest number of corresponding results was education level (results = 22), followed by income (results = 22), both positive drivers for food safety perceptions. The “cognitive aspects” category comprised the majority of the identified motivators. Concern for food safety (results = 32) and risk perception (results = 30) were the motivators with the highest number of results among all categories and motivators. Finally, the main motivator in the “other” category was place of consumption/purchase (results = 8), focusing on consumers underestimating the risk of having a foodborne disease when eating away from home. China and Brazil are leading the way in studies on this topic. Consumers’ perceptions are influenced by socioeconomic characteristics (e.g., age, gender, education level, income), cognitive aspects (e.g., knowledge, risk perception, food concerns, previous experience with food safety incidents) and other situational factors (e.g., price, place of purchase, traceability).

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Economics applied to food safety

Cited by 34 publications

References 48 publications

Moving beyond negative spillover: The positive consequences of an innocent brand's responses to another brand's crisis

Moving beyond negative spillover: The positive consequences of an innocent brand's responses to another brand's crisis

Food safety and cognitive biases: what we know, what we need to know, and why

What Motivates Consumer Food Safety Perceptions and Beliefs? A Scoping Review in BRICS Countries

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