Urban consumers' attitudes towards the safety of milk powder after the melamine scandal in 2008 and the factors influencing the attitudes

Ying-heng, Zhou; Wang, Erpeng

doi:10.1108/17561371111103589

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“…Recent studies of perceptions Consumer Perceptions of Food Safety in Nanjing, China 491 of food risks in China have tended to focus on specific products or food safety concerns, such as melamine and milk (Z. G. Wang, Mao, and Gale 2008;C. P. Zhang et al 2010;Y. H. Zhou and Wang 2011;Qiao, Guo, and Klein 2012), fish and fish products (F. Wang et al 2009), food additives (Wu et al 2013), and genetically modified foods (Li et al 2003;Ho, Vermeer, and Zhao 2006).…”

Section: Consumer Food Safety and Risk Perceptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of Food Safety by Urban Consumers in Nanjing, China

Veeck

Zhao

2015

The Professional Geographer

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Section: Consumer Food Safety and Risk Perceptionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of Food Safety by Urban Consumers in Nanjing, China

Veeck

Zhao

2015

The Professional Geographer

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“…These places were chosen for the following reasons: (1) past experience suggests that consumers here are at different levels of consumption and (2) the consumers here are from various strata of society. These choices avoided the problem of biased selection of samples, which occurs when samples are selected from one single place where only consumers at a certain level of consumption are focused on [24].…”

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Influence of Source Credibility on Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods in China

Zhang

Chen

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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This paper examines the reasoning mechanism behind the consumer acceptance of genetically modified foods (GMFs) in China, and investigates influence of source credibility on consumer acceptance of GMFs. Based on the original Persuasion Model-which was developed by Carl Hovland, an American psychologist and pioneer in the study of communication and its effect on attitudes and beliefs-we conducted a survey using multistage sampling from 1167 urban residents, which were proportionally selected from six cities in three economic regions (south, central, and north) in the Jiangsu province through face to face interviews. Mixed-process regression that could correct endogeneity and ordered probit model were used to test the impact of source credibility on consumers' acceptance of GMFs. Our major finding was that consumer acceptance of GMFs is affected by such factors as information source credibility, general attitudes, gender, and education levels. The reliability of biotechnology research institutes, government offices devoted to management of GM organisms (GMOs), and GMO technological experts have expedited urban consumer acceptance of GM soybean oil. However, public acceptance can also decrease as faith in the environmental organization. We also found that ignorance of the endogeneity of above mentioned source significantly undervalued its effect on consumers' acceptance. Moreover, the remaining three sources (non-GMO experts, food companies, and anonymous information found on the Internet) had almost no effect on consumer acceptance. Surprisingly, the more educated people in our survey were more skeptical towards GMFs. Our results contribute to the behavioral literature on consumer attitudes toward GMFs by developing a reasoning mechanism determining consumer acceptance of GMFs. Particularly, this paper quantitatively studied the influence of different source credibility on consumer acceptance of GMFs by using mixed-process regression to correct endogeneity in information sources, while taking into consideration of information asymmetry and specific preference in the use of information sources.

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“…Food safety incidents have always been causing public concerns because of their negative impact on public health (Zhou and Wang, 2011). In the west, such incidents as the Salmonella (2006), the dioxin contamination (2008), and the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (2008) have caused public panic.…”

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Food safety incidents’ influence on the food industry

Zeng¹,

Luο²,

Liu

2014

China Agricultural Economic Review

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purposes of this paper are to find out the correlations between the changes of food companies' environments and the strategic reactions of food companies after the media disclosed that there were food safety incidents out there in the food markets. Design/methodology/approach -This paper uses a randomly sampling survey of 139 food enterprises in China. After statistical significance and statistical power were examined, canonical correlation analysis was used as the main data analysis technique of this research. Findings -Based on the environment-strategy paradigm, the authors found that the changes of the competition environment, resource environment, and institution environment in the food industry have significant association with food companies' strategic reactions such as public relations, networking with firms and futurity after food safety incidents in the food market were disclosed. Originality/value -The paper is the first to quantitatively examine the relationships between the changes of food companies' environments and the strategic reactions of food companies after the media disclosed that there were food safety incidents in the food markets. The findings of this paper send novel and important messages to government decision makers and the public, evidencing how food companies strategically respond to external environmental changes, and suggesting that the institution-builder as well as the media have more work to do in the aftermath of food safety incidents.

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Urban consumers' attitudes towards the safety of milk powder after the melamine scandal in 2008 and the factors influencing the attitudes

Cited by 31 publications

References 8 publications

Perceptions of Food Safety by Urban Consumers in Nanjing, China

Perceptions of Food Safety by Urban Consumers in Nanjing, China

Influence of Source Credibility on Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods in China

Food safety incidents’ influence on the food industry

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