Wang Xiaocheng, Xu Yanbo, Liang Miaomiao, Gao Jian, Wang Jing, Chen Si, Cheng Jingmin
School of Management, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001, China.
School of Public Health, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030001, China.
Foods. 2022 Jul 2;11(13):1971. doi: 10.3390/foods11131971.
In China, food has become safer over the past five years, especially commonly consumed foods. Food supervision sampling has played an important role in improving food safety. However, consumer acceptance of the results of food safety supervision have not kept pace. Communicating actual food safety risks to consumers and improving the public trust in food safety supervision sampling inspection has become an important issue. This study focused on food safety surveillance sampling of commonly consumed foods. In total, 4408 adult consumers were surveyed between August and October 2021. Structural equation modeling was performed for data analysis. This study found significant differences along gender lines and across different cities and levels of education with respect to evaluating competence trust and care trust on food supervision sampling inspection. This study identified the public's competence trust, care trust, and perception of food safety as factors that significantly affect one's attitude toward supervision sampling inspection. Care trust showed a more pronounced effect on trust enhancement than competence trust. The present study also provides some practical measures for food safety supervisors to improve public trust in the national food inspection. Specifically, the sampling process should be open and transparent.
在中国，过去五年食品变得更加安全，尤其是常见的消费食品。食品监督抽检在改善食品安全方面发挥了重要作用。然而，消费者对食品安全监督结果的接受程度并未跟上步伐。向消费者传达实际的食品安全风险并提高公众对食品安全监督抽检的信任已成为一个重要问题。本研究聚焦于常见消费食品的食品安全监测抽检。2021年8月至10月期间，共对4408名成年消费者进行了调查。采用结构方程模型进行数据分析。本研究发现，在对食品监督抽检的能力信任和关怀信任评估方面，不同性别、不同城市以及不同教育水平存在显著差异。本研究确定公众的能力信任、关怀信任以及对食品安全的认知是显著影响其对监督抽检态度的因素。与能力信任相比，关怀信任对增强信任的影响更为显著。本研究还为食品安全监管人员提供了一些切实可行的措施，以提高公众对国家食品检验的信任。具体而言，抽样过程应公开透明。
