The evolution of food safety risk communication: Models and trends in the past and the future

Kasza, Gyula; Csenki, Eszter; Szakos, Dávid; Izsó, Tekla

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2022.109025

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“…As citizens' mental models are thought to affect behavior, it is important to initiate a conversation with citizens to help inform their decision-making. The results of the present study offer some guidance on effective communication and participatory dialogue that can help avoid costly inaction or misplaced action (see also Kasza et al, 2022).…”

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Exploring public risk perceptions of microplastics: Findings from a cross‐national qualitative interview study among German and Italian citizens

et al. 2023

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Microplastics are receiving growing attention in the public debate, while the scientific assessment of risks of microplastics to ecological and human health is still ongoing. Previous studies suggest concerns among the general public with country‐specific differences. However, little is known about the reasoning underlying these concerns. By conducting qualitative interviews with German (n = 15) and Italian citizens (n = 15), this study adopted a cross‐national perspective to investigate which concepts shape citizens’ perceptions of microplastics. A qualitative content analysis was used, with coding categories and subcategories developed inductively. Results showed that interviewees formed assumptions around microplastics despite own uncertainties, transferred knowledge from macro‐ to microplastics, and used the concepts of accumulation and dose–response relationship to make sense of the topic. Moreover, they saw the domains of human health and the environment as intertwined and expressed helplessness when discussing solutions to the microplastics issue. Many themes on the topic were similar in both samples, but there were also some differences. For instance, whereas Italian participants talked about marine‐related microplastics, German participants talked about airborne sources; also, German participants tended to recognize more strongly the actions their country was putting in place to address the problem. These findings underscore the need for proactive risk communication despite remaining gaps in scientific risk assessment. Beyond providing technical information, communicators should consider the reasoning behind risk perception on microplastics and address scientific uncertainty as well as the interconnectedness between the domains of human health and the environment.

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Section: Implications For Risk Communication and Policy Makingmentioning

confidence: 76%

Exploring public risk perceptions of microplastics: Findings from a cross‐national qualitative interview study among German and Italian citizens

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“…Awareness-raising public campaigns, social media campaigns, and childhood education are key elements [ 114 , 115 ]. These communication programs should be tailored to country-specific characteristics such as cultural, political, and economic differences of each society, and should also consider each population’s food-safety knowledge, attitude, and risk perception [ 116 ]. Short, clear, and easy-to-remember messages could help consumers balance sustainability and food safety during decision-making about food choice, shopping, food storage, eating out, and management of leftovers.…”

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Conflicting Issues of Sustainable Consumption and Food Safety: Risky Consumer Behaviors in Reducing Food Waste and Plastic Packaging

Kasza

Olsen

Scholderer

et al. 2022

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Food-related consumer decisions have an impact on the environment. However, trending patterns of sustainable consumption often pose a challenge for food-safety authorities: these initiatives may unintentionally compromise food safety. The objective of this review is to support public agencies in the integration of sustainability issues into food-safety risk communication schemes. Environmentally conscious but risky behaviors aimed at the reduction of food waste and plastic packaging were chosen for discussion and scrutinized based on expert opinions. Those expert opinions clearly indicated that a significant part of environmentally conscious behaviors, such as removing mold, eating expired perishable food, overstoring leftovers, avoiding single-use plastic packaging even when cross-contamination is a threat, and using reusable bags without cleaning for a long time, often contribute to food-safety risks. Short, easy-to-remember messages were collected for each recognized risky behavior; they concentrated on prevention or providing an alternative that was still environmentally sensible but kept food-safety risks low (such as planning ahead to avoid leftovers, freezing leftovers in time, and sanitizing reusable bags). The identified challenges and solutions might encourage authorities to rethink their risk-communication practices and integrate a sustainability aspect in them.

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“…From macro perspective, we generally interpretate our total conceptual model (see Figure 2) as a mix of "partnership model" and "behavioral insight model" proposed by Kasza et al (2022Kasza et al ( ). 10.3389/fpsyg.2022 The former features bidirectional communication, considering multi-stakeholders and laypeople actively engaging in obtaining information and even making decision, where SMU (i.e., share/comment risk information) empowers an interactivityoriented communication while efficacy (i.e., self-efficacy and confidence to government/experts) takes multi-stakeholder into account.…”

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Effect of social media use on food safety risk perception through risk characteristics: Exploring a moderated mediation model among people with different levels of science literacy

Zhang¹,

Wu²,

Liang³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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Food safety risk (FSR) is becoming a vital issue for public health, and improving public awareness of FSR through social media is necessary. This study aims to explore specific mechanisms of FSR perception; it first categorizes 19 risk characteristics into two variables, dread and efficacy, and then examines how social media use affects perceived FSR through both variables. Additionally, the study explores the moderating effects of source credibility and science literacy on the mechanisms of FSR perception. Based on a nationwide online survey (N = 2,015) of more than six salient food safety issues in China, the study found that exposure to food safety risk information on social media can help improve perceived FSR based on the proposed “dread–efficacy processing model” (DEPM), where dread stimulates perceived risk, while efficacy suppresses risk perception. Moreover, source credibility intensifies the effect of social media use on efficacy appraisal, whereas science literacy exerts a “double-weakening” influence on dread appraisal. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

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The evolution of food safety risk communication: Models and trends in the past and the future

Cited by 17 publications

References 48 publications

Exploring public risk perceptions of microplastics: Findings from a cross‐national qualitative interview study among German and Italian citizens

Exploring public risk perceptions of microplastics: Findings from a cross‐national qualitative interview study among German and Italian citizens

Conflicting Issues of Sustainable Consumption and Food Safety: Risky Consumer Behaviors in Reducing Food Waste and Plastic Packaging

Effect of social media use on food safety risk perception through risk characteristics: Exploring a moderated mediation model among people with different levels of science literacy

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