Modeling risk governance and risk perception in personal prevention with regard to food safety issues

Huan, Zhang; Gao, Na; Wang, Yean; Han, Yixuan

doi:10.1108/bfj-04-2018-0229

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“…Our finding that there exist moderation effects in the spillover of food safety risk to consumer markets, is roughly consistent with Zhang et al [57] claiming that media and gender moderate the impacts of risk governance (RG) and risk perception (RP) on personal risk prevention behavior (PRP) with regard to food safety issues; and roughly consistent with Prentice, Chen, and Wang [58] suggesting that consumers’ purchase styles moderate the impact of food product quality assessment on food purchase intention.…”

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confidence: 93%

Food Safety Incident, Public Health Concern, and Risk Spillover Heterogeneity: Avian Influenza Shocks as Natural Experiments in China’s Consumer Markets

Tao

Zhu

et al. 2019

IJERPH

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Background: Food safety incidents have aroused widespread public health concern, causing food price risk. However, the causal paths remain largely unexplored in previous literature. This paper sets out to identify the relations of local and spatial spillovers of food safety incidents and public health concerns to food price risk in consumer markets within a setting with heterogeneous food safety risk levels. Methods: (i) Theoretically, unlike prior work, this paper decomposes food safety risks into food safety incidents (objective incident component) and public health concern (subjective concern component). This article develops a theoretical framework of causality to capture the underlying causal pathways motivated by the theories of limited attention and two-step flow of communication. (ii) Empirically, using avian influenza shocks in China’s poultry markets as natural experiments, this paper differentiates between low- and high-risk food and incidents. The article adopts dynamic spatial panel models to analyze potential nonlinearity, moderation, and mediation in the spillover of food safety risk to food price risk for a long panel of 30 provinces covering the November 2007 to November 2017 period. Results: (i) Food safety incident alone only triggers high-risk food price risk, not low-risk food price risk. (ii) Public health concern amplifies nonlinear food price risk triggered by food safety incident. (iii) High-risk incident intensifies negative pressure of public health concern on food price risk. (iv) Food safety incident indirectly affects high-risk food price risk through public health concern. Conclusions: Using a setting with heterogeneous risk levels, this paper documents that (i) food safety incident itself does not necessarily determine food price risk, whereas it is actually public health concern that directly causes nonlinear food price risk; (ii) public health concern spillover to food price risk is negatively moderated by high-risk incident, and (iii) food safety incident spillover to high-risk food price risk is mediated by public health concern. The findings complement current research by (i) elucidating the diverse impacts of food safety incident and public health concern on food price risk, which are obscure in previous literature, and (ii) highlighting that heterogeneous food and incident risk levels matter for determining food price risk spillover.

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confidence: 93%

Food Safety Incident, Public Health Concern, and Risk Spillover Heterogeneity: Avian Influenza Shocks as Natural Experiments in China’s Consumer Markets

Tao

Zhu

et al. 2019

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“…CDT explains how discrepancies between one's cognition and reality change the individual's later cognition and behavior. In the context of food safety, cognition refers to one's food risk opinions [56], food consumption values [57], affective attitudes of food [58], and food safety knowledge [59], while behavior refers to actions started in response to this cognition or individual's evaluation of such behavior [55].…”

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Food Safety Gaps between Consumers’ Expectations and Perceptions: Development and Verification of a Gap-Assessment Tool

Lin

Tsai

2020

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In recent decades, food safety has become a major concern due to frequent food safety incidents in many countries. This may lead to increased health risks associated with low quality food consumption, thereby reducing consumer trust in food safety. A better understanding of consumer perceptions of food safety can improve indicators that do not meet consumer expectations. We propose a food safety gap model with four gap-construct based on consumer expectations and perceptions. The model was empirically tested through a survey of 25 items, and then assessed for gaps through the importance–performance analysis (IPA). From a sample of 697 Taiwanese consumers, we found a huge gap between consumer expectations and perceptions related to food safety. More importantly, the results of the IPA indicate that most items must be immediately improved, which is vital in order to mitigate the risk of food safety.

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“…Wei and Aengwanich (2012) stated that the support from government policies in combination with the invest capacity of farmers resulted in different levels of biosecurity measure implemented in poultry farms in Thailand. Besides, the study in Taiwan revealed that the risk governance is capable to influence the risk perception toward food safety issues, and thus have a positive effect on risk prevention (Zhang et al, 2018). On the contrary, the insufficient information on costs and revenues of additional measures was considered as a major obstacle for the measures implementation.…”

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On-farm food safety knowledge, attitudes and self-reported practices of layer hen farmers

Thongpalad

Kuwornu

Datta

et al. 2019

BFJ

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of farmers regarding the on-farm food safety measures in the commercial layer farms in Thailand prior the implementation of the mandatory Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) standard. Design/methodology/approach The cross-sectional study was conducted through the face-to-face interview with a questionnaire in 143 GAP certified and 59 non-GAP certified farms. The levels of safety and quality measures implemented in farms were evaluated using a self-reported approach. Scoring system was applied to investigate the relationship between level of practices and its determining factors using the correlation test. Findings The layer hen farmers appeared to have an adequate level of knowledge on safety and quality measures; however, some misconception on recommended practices was still observed. The significant differences (p<0.001) in the regularity of practices adopted in farms were noticed between GAP and non-GAP groups. The GAP farmers have higher level of knowledge, and positive attitudes toward implementation. Only the weak positive relationships were found between all KAP variables which implied that there are other factors influencing the translation of knowledge and favorable attitudes into practices. Originality/value None of the on-farm food safety KAP report has been published in Thailand. This study highlights the gaps in the practices and issues needed to be focused by standard promoters for developing the knowledge translation programs aimed at enhancing the standard of layer farming.

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Modeling risk governance and risk perception in personal prevention with regard to food safety issues

Cited by 9 publications

References 55 publications

Food Safety Incident, Public Health Concern, and Risk Spillover Heterogeneity: Avian Influenza Shocks as Natural Experiments in China’s Consumer Markets

Food Safety Incident, Public Health Concern, and Risk Spillover Heterogeneity: Avian Influenza Shocks as Natural Experiments in China’s Consumer Markets

Food Safety Gaps between Consumers’ Expectations and Perceptions: Development and Verification of a Gap-Assessment Tool

On-farm food safety knowledge, attitudes and self-reported practices of layer hen farmers

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