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Saturday, February 24, 2007

Food safety a yawner for the U.K. consumer

It's too bad we don't have a mirror poll for the U.S., but this story about a survey in the U.K about consumer concerns finds that food safety ranks low on their list of top worries.
From the story in Food Production Daily:

Food safety ranked 13th in the list of issues consumers cited as among their top concerns in the annual survey by the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The survey helps the FSA set its priorities and focus its resources. Just under one in ten UK respondents, or nine per cent 9%) mentioning food safety as one of their top three issues of concern.

TK: The survey said 60% of consumers, when asked directly, said they were concerned about food safety issues. But crime terrorism and health services topped the list of worries. This survey does show a nice increase in consumer confidence in the U.K.'s FSA since 2000. I would speculate a poll surveying consumer confidence in the U.S. FDA would reflect the opposite trend here over the past year.

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