EU Experts’ Attitude Towards Use of GMO in Food and Feed and Other Industries

Aleksejeva, Inese

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.12.893

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“…This means that if consumers have more objective knowledge about GM technology and GM foods, then they will perceive more benefits and fewer risks from applying gene technology to food production and GM foods. These results are consistent with Aleksejeva () to some extent which concluded that experts perceived less risk than the public.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Therefore, knowledge should be attached great attention to in the conceptual research framework of the consumer's attitude towards GM foods. Aleksejeva () highlighted that experts perceive less or different risk for all GM applications than the public, which implies the importance of the knowledge. Park et al .…”

Section: Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, knowledge should be attached great attention to in the conceptual research framework of the consumer's attitude towards GM foods. Aleksejeva (2014) highlighted that experts perceive less or different risk for all GM applications than the public, which implies the importance of the knowledge. Park et al (1988) pointed out that it needs to examine carefully the cognitive effects depending on the product knowledge stored in the memory or one's self-assessment of that knowledge, because there is a discrepant effect between them on the information processing.…”

Section: Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A number of surveys have been conducted in Europe, Canada and USA to find the public knowledge, perception and attitudes towards GM foods (House et al, 2004;Costa-Font et al, 2008;Ceccoli & Hixon, 2012). However, consumer's attitudes towards GM technology and GM foods vary across cultures and geographic characteristics around the world (Aleksejeva, 2014). For example, risk perceptions were greater in Europe than North America and Asia (Frewer et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The effects of consumer's subjective and objective knowledge on perceptions and attitude towards genetically modified foods: objective knowledge as a determinant

Zhang

Liu

2015

Int J of Food Sci Tech

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Summary Consumer's knowledge and perceptions are suspected of playing key roles in the formation of consumer's attitudes to genetically modified foods (GM foods). Specifically, the study distinguishes between consumer's objective and subjective knowledge and also distinguishes between risk and benefit perceptions. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact paths from consumer's different types of knowledge to consumer's attitudes towards GM foods purchase. A structural equation model (SEM) is constructed, and an empirical test is done using data from 570 consumer respondents collected from five representative cities in China. Interestingly, the paths from subjective knowledge to benefit perceptions (βH1 = −0.098, P = 0.085) and risk perceptions (βH2 = 0.098, P = 0.113) indicate that both the two paths are not significant, while the paths from objective knowledge to benefit receptions (βH3 = 0.769, P < 0.001) and risk perceptions (βH4 = −0.578, P < 0.001) imply that objective knowledge exerts great influence both on benefit and risk perceptions. That is to say, consumers’ objective knowledge rather than subjective knowledge plays an important role in the formation of consumer's attitudes to GM foods in urban China. This result is very different from (AgBioForum, 7, 2004 and 113). At the same time, the results show that in urban China, consumer's attitude towards GM Foods is significantly influenced both by benefit perceptions (βH5 = 0.649, P < 0.001) and risk perceptions (βH6 = −0.286, P < 0.001) but is mainly determined by benefit perceptions, and consumer's attitude towards GM foods is significantly related to his or her attitude towards GM foods purchase. Finally, recommendations for relevant industries and regulating agencies in the GM foods area and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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Section: Reviewmentioning

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The effects of consumer's subjective and objective knowledge on perceptions and attitude towards genetically modified foods: objective knowledge as a determinant

Zhang

Liu

2015

Int J of Food Sci Tech

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“…What other traits are related to these? The field of Genetic Engineering is an emergent discipline, which has expanded to biomedicine, agriculture and other related domains (Aleksejeva, 2014). Our case study focuses on a Plant Biotechnology industry, whose main target is to create Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).…”

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An authoring tool for decision support systems in context questions of ecological knowledge

Ferrández¹,

Peral²,

Gregorio³

et al. 2015

Ecological Informatics

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Decision support systems (DSS) support business or organizational decision-making activities, which require the access to information that is internally stored in databases or data warehouses, and externally in the Web accessed by Information Retrieval (IR) or Question Answering (QA) systems. Graphical interfaces to query these sources of information ease to constrain dynamically query formulation based on user selections, but they present a lack of flexibility in query formulation, since the expressivity power is reduced to the user interface design. Natural language interfaces (NLI) are expected as the optimal solution. However, especially for non-expert users, a real natural communication is the most difficult to realize effectively. In this paper, we propose a NLI that improves the interaction between the user and the DSS by means of referencing previous questions or their answers (i.e. anaphora such as the pronoun reference in -What traits are affected by them?‖), or by eliding parts of the question (i.e. ellipsis such as -And to glume colour?‖ after the question -Tell me the QTLs related to awn colour in wheat‖). Moreover, in order to overcome one of the main problems of NLIs about the difficulty to adapt a NLI to a new domain, our proposal is based on ontologies that are obtained semi-automatically from a framework that allows the integration of internal and external, structured and unstructured information. Therefore, our proposal can interface with databases, data warehouses, QA and IR systems. Because of the high NL ambiguity of the resolution process, our proposal is presented as an authoring tool that helps the user to query efficiently in natural language. Finally, our proposal is tested on a DSS case scenario about Biotechnology and Agriculture, whose knowledge base is the CEREALAB database as internal structured data, and the Web (e.g. PubMed) as external unstructured information.

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European consumer and societal stakeholders' response to crop improvements and new plant breeding techniques

Nair

Fischer

Moscatelli

et al. 2022

Food and Energy Security

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The global demand for providing nutritious, sustainable, and safe diets for a 10 billion population by 2050 while preserving affordability, reducing environmental impacts, and adapting to climate change will require accelerating the transition to sustainable agri‐food systems. A plausible way to help tackle these challenges is by developing new plant varieties that have improved crop yield, plant nutritional quality, and sustainability (or resilience) traits. However, stakeholders, consumers, and citizens' concerns and appreciation of future‐proofing crops and the acceptability of new plant breeding strategies are not well‐established. These groups are actors in the agri‐food systems, and their views, values, needs, and expectations are crucial in helping to co‐design fair, ethical, acceptable, sustainable, and socially desirable policies on new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs) and the transition to sustainable agri‐food systems. In this study, we engaged with consumer experts and societal stakeholders to consider their perceptions, expectations, and acceptability of improving crops and NPBTs for future‐proofing the agri‐food systems. Our analysis points to a need for governments to take a proactive role in regulating NPBTs, ensure openness and transparency in breeding new crop varieties, and inform consumers about the effects of these breeding programmes and the risks and benefits of the new crop varieties developed. Consumer experts and societal stakeholders considered these strategies necessary to instil confidence in society about NPBTs and accelerate the transition to sustainable agri‐food systems.

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EU Experts’ Attitude Towards Use of GMO in Food and Feed and Other Industries

Cited by 25 publications

References 5 publications

The effects of consumer's subjective and objective knowledge on perceptions and attitude towards genetically modified foods: objective knowledge as a determinant

The effects of consumer's subjective and objective knowledge on perceptions and attitude towards genetically modified foods: objective knowledge as a determinant

An authoring tool for decision support systems in context questions of ecological knowledge

European consumer and societal stakeholders' response to crop improvements and new plant breeding techniques

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