The effects of food safety issues released by we media on consumers’ awareness and purchasing behavior: A case study in China

Ya-la, Peng; Li, Jiajie; Xia, Hui; Qi, Siyuan; Li, Jianhong

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2014.12.010

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“…Whilst official food safety governance in China has improved significantly in past decades, problems still remain (Liu, 2010;Lam, Remais, Fung, Xu & Sun, 2013;Holtkamp, Liu & McGuire, 2014;Unnevehr & Hoffmann, 2015). Suggested reasons for this include: unclear and overlapped responsibilities for different authorities (Liu, 2010;Holtkamp, Liu & McGuire, 2014;Verbruggen & Havinga, 2017); poor coordination and communication between departments and regions (Liu, 2010;Jia & Jukes, 2013), lax enforcement (Pei et al 2011;Yang, 2013), low penalties (Liang, 2011), inferior legal requirements (Jia & Jukes, 2013;Yang, 2013); numerous small-scale producers (Peng, Li, Xia, Qi & Li, 2015;Verbruggen & Havinga, 2017), and fragmented consumer groups (Zhou, 2017). In this nexus, third-party governance began to develop.…”

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“…Recurrent food safety incidents in China have exerted a profound negative impact on consumer confidence and the wider international reputation of the Chinese food industry (Jia & Jukes, 2013;Peng, Li, Xia, Qi & Li, 2015;Liu & Ma, 2016). Since the 1990s, China has experienced both rapid industrialisation and urbanisation, causing great change in the food supply chain (Zhang & Xue, 2016).…”

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“…Governance is therefore more than simply describing the role of the government in food policy. Disclosure of information is an essential part of food safety governance (FAO & WHO, 2003) and while the government is often the most trusted source, the majority of Chinese consumers still receive information on food safety incidents from the media (Jin & Han, 2014;Peng, Li, Xia, Qi & Li, 2015;Zhang, Xu, Oosterveer & Mol, 2016). The sharp increase in Chinese media exposure of food safety incidents (Liu & Ma, 2016) shows the media's role in food safety governance.…”

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The role of media reporting in food safety governance in China: A dairy case study

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Using dairy products as the case study of interest, the aim of the research is to explore the role of the media in food safety governance in China. Thematic content analysis is used to evaluate government and media reports (n = 233) on dairy related food safety incidents in China between 2004 and 2017 with differences identified between government and media reporting. The data is extracted from an online database (Zhichuchuangwai). The results show that the government performs better on exposing incidents earlier within the 14-year period but the news media plays a complementary role in food safety governance exposing a wider coverage of incidents. This study extends the current literature on the role of the news media in food safety governance in China by focusing on a single food sector (dairy), but on a national scale.

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The role of media reporting in food safety governance in China: A dairy case study

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“…Consumer confidence is undermined by the frequent disclosure of food scandals. Literature suggests that many food safety concerns and scandals in China were initially uncovered by the media rather than by official surveillance (Peng et al, 2015), with the result that consumers have a greater distrust of the government. We find that about 57% of respondents express their disappointment about food system governance in China.…”

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Consumer anxieties about food grain safety in China

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Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) eprints@whiterose.ac.uk https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse Unless indicated otherwise, fulltext items are protected by copyright with all rights reserved. The copyright exception in section 29 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 allows the making of a single copy solely for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study within the limits of fair dealing. The publisher or other rights-holder may allow further reproduction and re-use of this version -refer to the White Rose Research Online record for this item. Where records identify the publisher as the copyright holder, users can verify any specific terms of use on the publisher's website. TakedownIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. Abstract: China has a long history of eating staple plant foods which are mainly derived from food grains, especially rice and wheat. Food grain safety has been a worrying challenge on health and nutrition grounds in China, although evidence clearly suggests that expanding agricultural production is linked to reducing undernourishment. The focus of this study is to investigate consumers' anxieties about food grain safety in China. The nature and extent of consumer anxieties about grain safety, the cause of these anxieties, and possible ways to relieve anxiety are empirically analyzed. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews with 142 grain consumers in 29 provinces of China, in both rural and urban areas, during 2016. The results show that consumers are worried about the production and processing safety of food grains and genetically modified cereals and that the causes of anxiety are varied. Anxiety is amplified by social media reports of food scandals, polluted ecological environments, the high incidence of food-related chronic diseases and cancer, concerns about food system governance and lack of knowledge and ability to identify grain quality. Consumers seek to relieve their anxiety by identifying grain quality themselves, choosing foreign grains and paying close attention to reports about unsafe food. These findings have important implications for future programs aimed at improving consumer confidence about grain safety.

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“…However, information asymmetry [4,17] between traders has led to a rapid increase of the credit risk of traders. With the higher demand for product quality and transparency in on-line transactions, credibility systems were created by the desires to effectively ensure the quality of transaction products.…”

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Credit Evaluation System Based on Blockchain for Multiple Stakeholders in the Food Supply Chain

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Hao

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The food supply chain is a complex system that involves a multitude of “stakeholders” such as farmers, production factories, distributors, retailers and consumers. “Information asymmetry” between stakeholders is one of the major factors that lead to food fraud. Some current researches have shown that applying blockchain can help ensure food safety. However, they tend to study the traceability of food but not its supervision. This paper provides a blockchain-based credit evaluation system to strengthen the effectiveness of supervision and management in the food supply chain. The system gathers credit evaluation text from traders by smart contracts on the blockchain. Then the gathered text is analyzed directly by a deep learning network named Long Short Term Memory (LSTM). Finally traders’ credit results are used as a reference for the supervision and management of regulators. By applying blockchain, traders can be held accountable for their actions in the process of transaction and credit evaluation. Regulators can gather more reliable, authentic and sufficient information about traders. The results of experiments show that adopting LSTM results in better performance than traditional machine learning methods such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Navie Bayes (NB) to analyze the credit evaluation text. The system provides a friendly interface for the convenience of users.

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The effects of food safety issues released by we media on consumers’ awareness and purchasing behavior: A case study in China

Cited by 80 publications

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The role of media reporting in food safety governance in China: A dairy case study

The role of media reporting in food safety governance in China: A dairy case study

Consumer anxieties about food grain safety in China

Credit Evaluation System Based on Blockchain for Multiple Stakeholders in the Food Supply Chain

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