How perspectives on food safety of vendors and consumers translate into food choice behaviors in six African and Asian countries

Autor: Isanovic, Sejla, Constantinides, Shilpa, Frongillo, Edward, Bhandari, Shiva, Samin, Sharraf, Kenney, Emma, Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid, Nordhagen, Stella, Holdsworth, Michelle, Dominguez-Salas, Paula, Ambikapathi, Ramya, Laar, Amos, L. Patil, Crystal, Kulkarni, Bharati, Bukachi, Salome A., Ngutu, Mariah, Blake, Christine E.
Přispěvatelé: University of South Carolina [Columbia], Wageningen University and Research [Wageningen] (WUR), Global Alliance For Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Montpellier Interdisciplinary center on Sustainable Agri-food systems (Social and nutritional sciences) (UMR MoISA), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM), Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Montpellier, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), University of Greenwich, Purdue University [West Lafayette], Cornell University [New York], University of Ghana, University of Illinois [Chicago] (UIC), University of Illinois System, Indian Council of Medical Research [New Dehli] (ICMR), University of Nairobi (UoN), This research has been funded by the Drivers of Food Choice Competitive Grants Programs, funded by the United Kingdom Government's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation INV-008124, and managed by the University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Current Developments in Nutrition
Current Developments in Nutrition, 2023, 7 (1), pp.100015. ⟨10.1016/j.cdnut.2022.100015⟩
ISSN: 2016-2022
2475-2991
Popis: International audience; BackgroundConsumption of unsafe foods increases morbidity and mortality and is currently an issue, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Policy actions to ensure food safety are dominated by mitigation of biological and chemical hazards through supply-side risk management, lessening the degree to which consumer perspectives of food safety are considered.ObjectiveThis study aimed to provide an in-depth understanding, from vendor and consumer perspectives, of how food safety concerns of consumers translate into their subsequent food choice behaviors in six diverse low- and middle-income countries.MethodsSix Drivers of Food Choice projects (2016-2022) provided transcripts from 17 focus group discussions and 343 interviews in Ghana, Guinea, India, Kenya, Tanzania, and Vietnam. Qualitative thematic analysis was used to identify emerging themes important to food safety.ResultsThe analysis suggests that consumers constructed meaning about food safety through personal lived experience and social influences. Community and family members contributed knowledge about food safety. Concerns about food safety were influenced by reputations of, and relationships with, food vendors. Consumers’ mistrust of food vendors was amplified by purposeful adulteration or unsafe selling practices and new methods used to produce food. Consumers were reassured of food safety by positive relationships with vendors; meals cooked at home; implementation of policies and following of regulations; vendor adherence to environmental sanitation and food hygiene practices; cleanliness of vendors’ appearance; and vendors’ or producers’ agency to use risk mitigation strategies in production, processing, and distribution of food.ConclusionsConsumers integrated their meanings, knowledge, and concerns about food safety to achieve assurance about the safety of their foods when making food choice decisions. The success of food-safety policies hinges on consideration of consumers’ food safety concerns in their design and implementation, alongside actions to reduce risk in food supply.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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