Food safety concerns in urban China: Consumer preferences for pig process attributes

Cicia, Gianni; Caracciolo, Francesco; Cembalo, Luigi; Giudice, Teresa Del; Grunert, Klaus G.; Krystallis, Athanasios; Lombardi, Pasquale; Zhou, Yanfeng

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2015.07.012

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“…In order to test the effect of the elements on the label in conveying an healthier image of the product we used a contingent ranking method (Cicia et al, ). This method belongs to the group of Choice Models; they explain how consumers make a trade‐off among different elements they use for choice, in this case we tested how different types of labels are perceived by consumers to make a judgment of healthiness of the product through a contingent ranking model (Bateman et al, ; Green & Srinivasan, ).…”

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“…The results can be straightforwardly interpreted as the relative importance of manipulated elements of the product (Green & Srinivasan, ). In literature choice modeling has been extensively used to explain how the decision making of the consumers for these products takes place, mostly under the form of conjoint analysis (Ares, Besio, Giménez, & Deliza, ; Ares & Deliza ; Claret et al, ; Deliza, Macfie, & Hedderley, ; de DS Carneiro et al, ; I Furnols et al, ; Vidal et al, ), but also using choice experiment (Alfnes, Guttormsen, Steine, & Kolstad, ; Loureiro & Umberger, ), and contingent ranking (Cicia et al, ; Johnston & Roheim, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This allows to have the part worths for each attribute requiring a simple task by the respondent: a ranking of profiles; this simplicity makes the method easy to set up and to replicate (Moskowitz, Gofman, & Beckley, 2006). The results can be straightforwardly interpreted as the relative importance of manipulated elements of the product (Green & Srinivasan, 1990 2006;Loureiro & Umberger, 2007), and contingent ranking (Cicia et al, 2016;Johnston & Roheim, 2006).…”

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Visual elements of packaging shaping healthiness evaluations of consumers: The case of olive oil

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Visual elements of food products can play an important role in determining food choice through shaping the attributes perception of consumers. Symbols and logos have the role of conveying information, but they can be interpreted in different ways. The product used as a case study is Extra‐Virgin Olive Oil. The elements tested are: color of the bottle, sensory quality claims, organic production logos, country of origin (COO), and cold processing. An online questionnaire was completed by a sample of Dutch and Italian consumers in order to have cross‐national results. Consumers' healthiness perception toward packaging alternatives with combinations of these elements were related to consumer traits through a contingent ranking method. Healthiness perception was enhanced by elements on the label such as: organic production, COO and by traits of the consumers such as familiarity and sustainability concern; while it was lowered by sensory indications of pungent properties. Somewhat unexpectedly, the color of container was the only element differently interpreted by the two nationalities. Practical applications Most of the packaging elements were perceived similarly by the Dutch and Italian consumers, this suggests that there is no need to create different labels for products sold in different countries. The exception relies in the indication to use dark bottles for products sold in Italy and transparent for products sold in The Netherlands. Pungent features, even if tied with superior healthy properties, are preferred by a small share of consumers. Label and packaging can be used to better communicate the healthiness of the products, so indicating the origin and the organic production can be useful for companies, regardless of the country in which they operate. A positive trend of preference toward olive oil in emerging consuming countries, as The Netherlands, is expected, as the use of this product is spreading within the population as healthy concerns about diet is becoming increasingly important.

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“…The rise in consumer attention to intrinsic and extrinsic food product attributes has made the food industry concerned about consumer awareness of production processes (Grunert et al 2014;Ventura et al 2015;Cicia et al 2016). Pursuing more conscious choices, the consumer seeks products with greater information on the production process (Harper and Henson 2001).…”

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Determinants of Individual Attitudes Toward Animal Welfare-Friendly Food Products

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J Agric Environ Ethics

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Animal welfare involves societal and human values, ethical concerns and moral considerations since it incorporates the belief of what is right or what is wrong in animal treatment and care. This paper aims to ascertain whether the different dimensions of individual attitudes toward animal welfare in food choices may be characterized by general human values, as identified by Schwartz. For this purpose, an EU-wide survey was carried out, covering almost 2500 nationally representative individuals from five European countries. Compared with the previous literature this study shows a twofold novelty: (1) it develops a general framework to link individual enduring beliefs and attitudes toward animal welfare attributes in food choices; (2) the framework is analyzed within a broad-based crosscountry study. Our empirical results prove that human values related to self-transcendence are strongly associated to overall animal welfare attitudes and especially to those explicitly related to food choices, while values related to the spheres of selfenhancement and conservatism are significantly associated to less sensitive attitudes to animal welfare. Moreover, our results appear to indicate that a determinant of animal welfarism in food choices is potentially associated to individual concerns regarding food safety issues.

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“…However, from the literature on consumer studies, what is still unclear is which credence attribute, between perceived healthiness and environmental concern, is considered the most important by consumers when they choose natural food products. Consumers' preference for the two credence attributes is related to different consumers' attitudes (Cicia et al 2016). Food healthiness, in fact, is considered to satisfy more (perceived) hedonistic/personal attitudes of consumers, while environmental sustainability is associated to more altruistic/collective attitudes.…”

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Consumers’ willingness to pay for natural food: evidence from an artefactual field experiment

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Among foods with credence attributes, food with "natural" components have received in the last years particular attention by consumers. This study applies the BDM incentive compatible mechanism to explore young (18-35 years old) consumers' interest and willingness to pay for chewing gums having the natural attribute. Our analysis shows that over 68% of consumers are interested in the natural attribute and are willing to pay a price premium. We also find that consumers' higher age and interest in the environment have significant impacts on consumers' preferences for the natural attribute.

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Food safety concerns in urban China: Consumer preferences for pig process attributes

Cited by 33 publications

References 56 publications

Visual elements of packaging shaping healthiness evaluations of consumers: The case of olive oil

Visual elements of packaging shaping healthiness evaluations of consumers: The case of olive oil

Determinants of Individual Attitudes Toward Animal Welfare-Friendly Food Products

Consumers’ willingness to pay for natural food: evidence from an artefactual field experiment

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