Food labelling from a consumer perspective

Emerald - Tập 99 Số 6 - Trang 212-219 - 1997
Margareta Wandel1
1Researcher, National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo, Norway

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Posits that food labelling is one medium by which consumers can acquire knowledge about the food they consider buying. This type of information is becoming increasingly important in a food market where direct contact with the personnel over the counter is declining. Reports the results from a pilot study and a consumer survey including 1050 respondents. Reveals that the majority of consumers read the food labels (often, sometimes or seldom), and that the reading frequency was associated with the degree of uncertainty about the food supply. Additives occupied a far more prominent place in these reading activities, than what could be expected from the respondents’ general notions of what constitutes a healthy diet. Discusses these results with regard to consumer apprehension of the presentation of data on the food labels.

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Emerald

Tập 99 Số 6

212-219

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