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CONSUMER ANALYSIS IN A DYNAMIC FOOD MARKET. CONSUMER ANALYSIS IN A DYNAMIC FOOD
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CONSUMER ANALYSIS IN A DYNAMIC FOOD MARKET
ABSTRACT
Consumer analysis is a very complex matter. There is an increasing interest to study it for more intensively due to the political dimension of some food safety problems in the last decade.
The concern on health and nutrition has stimulated the research on different attributes and comparative advantages of consumption habits and diets. However, under a practical point of view, we should focus our attention in a broad horizon, with a mixture of nutrition, culture and traditional values. In this paper we focus the analysis in the new consumer scenario of food safety at the EU, with some views about general methodology and comments about the future, and actions to be taken to increase confidence in the food market.
INTRODUCTION
Consumer analysis at the EU has been focused lately in the food safety area. Food scandals (BSE, salmonella, dioxins) in the past decade have provoked a diminish in the consumer’s confidence in the food system. The 1998 the Euro barometer showed that only 66% of the European consumers trusted the controls made on food safety at national regional and local levels, and only 43% in European controls.
But there are different aspects to be considered. In one way there is a feeling among consumers, specially their organisations, “that interest of food industry have been put before interest of the consumer in the EU” (D. Hutton. 2003).
Another interesting issue is the idea that consumers do not get the whole truth about the situation in food safety problems. The Euro barometer survey in 1998 showed only 20% of the consumers believe that European authorities told the whole truth.
We should call the attention in the fact that major threats to European consumers come from unhealthy diet more than from dangerous food. Quality controls in the EU food chain are becoming very efficient and enterprises are concerned about the...
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