ETH Zurich, Department Health Science and Technology, Consumer Behavior, Universitätstrasse 22, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
Gesundheitsdepartement Basel-Stadt, Kantonales Laboratorium, Basel, Switzerland.
Food Chem Toxicol. 2018 Jun;116(Pt B):100-107. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2018.04.006. Epub 2018 Apr 4.
Using a survey approach, the study examined how experts (i.e. food control representatives), producers (i.e. food industry representatives) and consumers prioritized control activities for 28 hazards related to food and other everyday items. The investigated hazards encompassed a wide range of safety issues, including health risks, consumer deception and poor food hygiene behaviour. The participants included 41 experts, 138 producers and 243 consumers from the German- and French-speaking parts of Switzerland. Based on detailed descriptions of the hazards, they were asked to rank these on a score sheet in terms of the perceived importance of monitoring by food control authorities. A between-group comparison of average rankings showed that consumers and experts differed significantly in relation to 17 of the 28 hazards. While the experts assigned higher priority to hazards related to everyday items such as nitrosamine in mascara and chromium VI in leather products, producers and consumers tended to prioritize products related to plant treatment and genetic modification of food and feeds. Producer and consumer rankings of the hazards were highly correlated (r = .96, p < .001). Rankings were also similar among participants from the two cultural regions (i.e. German and French-speaking parts of Switzerland).
本研究采用问卷调查的方法，考察了专家（即食品监管代表）、生产者（即食品行业代表）和消费者如何优先考虑与食品和其他日常用品相关的 28 种危害的控制活动。所调查的危害涵盖了广泛的安全问题，包括健康风险、消费者欺诈和不良的食品卫生行为。参与者包括来自瑞士德语区和法语区的 41 名专家、138 名生产者和 243 名消费者。他们根据危害的详细描述，在一张评分表上对这些危害进行排名，以衡量食品监管机构监测的重要性。对平均排名的组间比较表明，消费者和专家在 28 种危害中的 17 种危害上存在显著差异。虽然专家对与日常用品相关的危害（如睫毛膏中的亚硝胺和皮革制品中的六价铬）给予了更高的优先级，但生产者和消费者更倾向于优先考虑与植物处理和食品及饲料的基因改造相关的产品。生产者和消费者对危害的排名高度相关（r=。96，p<.001）。来自两个文化区（即瑞士德语区和法语区）的参与者的排名也相似。
