Food safety in everyday life: Shopping for vegetables in a rural city in Vietnam

Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid; Spaargaren, Gert; Vellema, Sietze

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2014.04.002

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“…However, at 64. the portion (%) of the daily food budget of US$ 1.5/ person we calculated is based on price data collection and an average daily vegetable shopping amount of 377 grams (290 grams/person intake plus 30 per cent waste = 377 grams purchased/person). this is based on previous daily shopping journal research: Wertheim-heck, Vellema et al (2014). the calculation was based on a limited selection of vegetables that was available across all channels during the price data collection.…”

Section: Quality-affordability Dimension Of Accessing Foods and Diet mentioning

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Food safety and nutrition for low-income urbanites: exploring a social justice dilemma in consumption policy

Wertheim-Heck¹,

Raneri²,

Oosterveer³

2019

Environment and Urbanization

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Equitable access to healthy food is a critical challenge in urban Asia. Food safety governance promotes modern supermarkets over more traditional markets, but supermarkets are associated with unequal access to food. This study investigates how retail policies driven by food safety impact the diets of the urban poor in Hanoi, Vietnam. We do this by linking food retail infrastructures with the food shopping practices and measured dietary intake of 400 women. Our results reveal sub-optimal dietary diversity and reliance on foods sourced through traditional markets, which do not provide formal food safety guarantees. Modern channels supply formal food safety guarantees, but are mainly frequented for purchasing ultra-processed foods. The paper uncovers a conflicting duality governing food security and suggests that the public responsibility for ensuring access of the poor to nutritious and safe foods requires a more diverse retail policy approach.

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Section: Quality-affordability Dimension Of Accessing Foods and Diet mentioning

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Food safety and nutrition for low-income urbanites: exploring a social justice dilemma in consumption policy

Wertheim-Heck¹,

Raneri²,

Oosterveer³

2019

Environment and Urbanization

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“…Indeed, there is a gradual expansion of supermarkets in Vietnam's urban centers since the country opened up its market to fully foreign-owned corporations in 2009 (Nguyen et al, 2013). 3 Yet, supermarkets, especially when compared to the persistent practices of shopping at wet markets (Humphrey, 2007;Wertheim-Heck et al, 2014a), are a relatively small channel for securing fresh vegetables for daily meals. Persistent consumer habits are challenging the policymakers' exclusive focus on supermarkets in food safety policies.…”

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“…Persistent consumer habits are challenging the policymakers' exclusive focus on supermarkets in food safety policies. Retail modernization policies lead to the marginalization of existing wet markets, where traders and consumers have already developed often long-standing relationships and shopping routines, which are important for coping with food safety risks (Wertheim-Heck et al, 2014a). As an unintended consequence, an increasing number of consumers started shopping at uncontrolled and unhygienic street markets (Wertheim-Heck et al, 2014b).…”

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Food safety and urban food markets in Vietnam: The need for flexible and customized retail modernization policies

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“…Because of this, vegetable growers can not comply with the process of producing safe vegetables. About 85% of household survey in Viet Tri city showed they did trust vegetables more when their quality is guaranteed by an official food safety certification by the Vietnam authorities [9]. The vegetables certified for the safety have been produced in accordance with national regulations, which address food safety primarily from a pest management perspective.…”

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“…Truong and Vi [8] reported that pesticides were sprayed 10.4 times for crops per year by farmers in Thua Thien Hue, 5.1 times for winter-spring crops and 5.3 times for summer-autumn crops. This issue is the biggest potential danger in vegetable food safety concerned by most of consumers in Vietnam [9]. Pesticides and nitrogen fertilizer high in vegetables can cause the foodborne diseases [10].…”

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Safe Vegetable Consumption in Hue City: A Case Study of Food Safety Situation in Vietnam

Trường¹,

Thao²,

Tuyết³

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Abstract:Food safety has become a growing concern for citizens in the modern society when consuming unsafe food that directly impacts public health, life quality and well-being of each country. People of Vietnam in general and specially in Hue city have been facing challenge of vegetable unsafety. A survey concerning the consumption of safe vegetables was conducted in Hue city, Vietnam. Data were collected by using a well-structured questionnaire from representative of 30 consumers, 30 producers and 10 collectors. The results showed that lettuce, sweet potato and Chinese mustard were identified as the most important vegetables to consumers in Hue city. Most of the consumers purchased vegetable every day. The cost of vegetable in every transaction was about 30,000 VND. This expenditure has not created a great motivation for developing safe vegetable production. Most of the consumers in Hue city showed high interest, demand, trust and satisfaction for safe vegetable. However, 50% of the consumers reported that the price of the safe vegetable was quite expensive and price was not matched with their quality. Moreover, there were some disadvantages in each stage of vegetable supply chain. For example, land, seed, capital, cultivation techniques, preliminary processing, preservation, brand name, trademark and place to consume have not met the requirement of high technology production for the supply chain of safe vegetables. The chain linking between the production and consumption of vegetables is not sustainable. Producers and consumers do not have closely links. Vegetable can not be traced to origin and there is no safe certificate. The consumers believe the quality of vegetables depending on the prestige suppliers, such as, the vegetable shops with foreign consultants. Safe vegetables of farmers are very difficult to be certified for safe vegetables. Solutions and suggestions to Hue city are proposed that it is necessary to establish the vegetable production area in Hue city. Vegetable growers should be supported with capital, knowledge, technology, vegetable preliminary processing and preservation. They should be supported to build a trademark and certificate of vegetable safety and establish the chains of effective safe vegetable consumption.

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Food safety in everyday life: Shopping for vegetables in a rural city in Vietnam

Cited by 59 publications

References 25 publications

Food safety and nutrition for low-income urbanites: exploring a social justice dilemma in consumption policy

Food safety and nutrition for low-income urbanites: exploring a social justice dilemma in consumption policy

Food safety and urban food markets in Vietnam: The need for flexible and customized retail modernization policies

Safe Vegetable Consumption in Hue City: A Case Study of Food Safety Situation in Vietnam

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