美国FDA频频召回欧盟RASFF多次预警亚硫酸盐超标:中国食品出口的"结"

近期,美国食品药物管理局(FDA)因亚硫酸盐超标、标示等问题,频频宣布召回中国产干制蔬菜、干金针菜等食品.与此同时,欧盟食品与饲料快速预警系统(RASFF)连续通报进口虾仁、大蒜粉、杏干等食品中亚硫酸盐含量过高的信息.这些情况表明,美国、欧盟已经开始关注进口食品中亚硫酸盐残留问题.     

亚硫酸盐超标：中国食品出口的“结”

近期，美国食品药物管理局(FDA)因亚硫酸盐超标、标示等问题，频频宣布召回中国产干制蔬菜、干金针菜等食品。与此同时，欧盟食品与饲料快速预警系统(RASFF)连续通报进口虾仁、大蒜粉、杏干等食品中亚硫酸盐含量过高的信息。这些情况表明，美国、欧盟已经开始关注进口食品中亚硫酸盐残留问题。     

出口玻璃食品接触材料风险分析

根据世界各国对玻璃食品接触材料卫生要求和2000-2010年欧盟食品与饲料快速预警系统对我国出口的玻璃类食品接触材料的通报情况,分析我国出口玻璃类食品接触材料的风险和通报原因,提出相关的应对措施和检验监管建议。     

2019年欧盟食品和饲料快速预警系统通报中国食品安全问题及近五年变化情况分析

食品和饲料快速预警系统(rapid alert system for food and feed,RASFF)对华食品通报信息一方面反映了我国出口欧盟食品安全现状,另一方面反映了国内食品安全现状.本研究对2019年RASFF对华食品通报数据进行统计和特点分析:2019年RASFF对华食品通报共253例,我国出口食品的安...     

2023年欧盟对我国出口食品不合格通报呈现“三集中”特点

<正>2023年,欧盟食品及饲料快速预警系统（RASFF）通报我国出口食品不合格167批,同比增长9.15%。总体来看,欧盟对我国出口食品通报主要呈现通报国家集中、通报原因集中、通报商品集中的特点。Tips：欧盟新型食品申请要点第一类（授权申请）：由动物、植物、微生物、真菌、藻类及矿物来源组成,或由细胞培养物和组织培养物组成、分离以及生产的食品。采用了新工艺和新结构的食品（包括含纳米工程材料食品,进行分子修饰、具有新的分子结构的食品,     

我国出口欧盟食品接触材料及制品的质量分析

欧盟是我国食品接触材料及制品出口的重要市场,也是对我国该类产品发出不合格质量安全通报最多的地区。本文介绍了欧盟食品接触材料及制品的监管框架和质量通报机制,针对2016年至2019年欧盟食品和饲料快速预警系统(RASFF)中与我国相关的通报数据,从产品不合格原因、通报成员国等方面进行分析,并对我国食品接触材料及制品出口企业提出相关应对建议。     

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欧盟通报中国产酸黄瓜近日,英国通过欧盟食品和饲料委员会通报中国产酸黄瓜,通报原因是在产品中检出含有未经批准的色素E124-丽春红4R/胭脂红A(11mg/kg-ppm)。     

我国重新公布151种非法添加剂名单

为严厉打击食品生产经营中违法添加非食用物质等违禁药物,卫生部、农业部等部门根据风险监测和监督检查中发现的问题,不断更新非法使用物质名单,至今已公布151种食品和饲料中非法添加名单,     

欧盟公布自日本福岛核电站事故后对进口产／源于日本饲料和食品采取特别措施

近日,欧盟发布通报,欧盟委员会健康与消费者总司公布2011年3月25日委员会第（EU）297／2011号实施法规一自日本福岛核电站事故后对进口产／源于日本饲料和食品采取特别措施。     

美食品安全出新规

从2011年7月3日起，向美国出口食品，出口商应预先将相同食品被其他国家拒绝的情况向美国食品药品管理局通报。     

2009年加拿大食品检验局通报各国水产品安全问题分析

根据加拿大食品检验署官方网站向公众通报进口自各国水产品出现问题的情况,总结各国被通报问题涉及的安全项目,分析问题产生的原因,以期减少或避免类似情况的发生,希望对我国食品安全管理起到一定的借鉴作用,确保对加拿大水产贸易的顺利进行。     

豆制品质量安全保障机制研究

现阶段,我国的豆制品食品加工出现了较为明显的生产和消费下滑的趋势,主要原因是由于豆制品食品加工中所出现的安全隐患因素日益增多。因此,豆制品的食品安全问题是新时期豆制品工业生产进一步发展需要深入思考和改革的问题。     

Japanese consumers' use of extrinsic and intrinsic cues to mitigate risky food choices

The stated preference data were used to simulate and examine consumers' valuation of important extrinsic and intrinsic cues that are associated with risky foods. This analysis generates information on how consumers assess trade‐offs between price and selected intrinsic and extrinsic cues to determine their choice among alternative products. From this, optimum level of product quality attributes (i.e. intrinsic cues) and optimum price level for import products can be derived. Also, most effective sources of communicating food safety and risk management can be identified. The results show that the country origin cue is a key factor in understanding consumers' choice behaviour for food product that entails potential risk, which may suggest that consumers are using this information as a risk‐reduction strategy.     

The use of smart biosensors during a food safety incident: Consumers' cognitive-behavioural responses and willingness to pay

Intelligent and active packaging could allow consumers to control cognitive reactions linked to the risk of consuming food products contaminated by microbiological pathogens and thus mitigating negative consequences of food safety incidents. However, despite advances in technology, consumers' reactions and willingness to pay for active and intelligent packaging in the absence and presence of food safety incidents remain somewhat unexplored. To fill such a gap this study incorporates protection motivation theory (PMT) within a contingent valuation survey conducted in the UK to explore consumers' behavioural responses to risk communication in the absence and presence of a food safety incident. These responses were moderated by the possibility of buying hypothetical meat products marketed with biosensors informing consumers of the presence of bacteria post-purchase. A singular approach was developed to identify the following four behavioural responses of the PMT's cognitive mediating process: no response, fear, low response and danger control. Results indicate that the theoretical components of PMT play a different role in the absence and presence of food safety incidents. Respondents who receive risk information are willing to pay more than other participants to adopt precautionary behaviour and that purchasing behaviour varied across these four cognitive-behavioural responses. Governmental institutions, the food industry and retailers should consider working together to reassure consumers by investing in technology that may help consumers to mitigate fear during a food safety incident, but also to develop appropriate risk communication strategies that should focus more on the cognitive-behavioural outcomes analysed in this study.     

Development of functional food with the participation of the consumer. Motivators for consumption of functional products

The purpose of the study was (1) to define the most important characteristics of functional food affecting purchasing decisions; (2) diagnose the importance of the healthful properties of functional food; (3) identify preferences for carriers (base product) and the importance of the functional components essential in the choice of functional products; and (4) get to know the motives by which consumers are guided when purchasing functional food. The data were collected through direct interview (n = 200). The research tool was a questionnaire divided into four sections. The first one included quality attributes. The second one included healthful properties, functional components and carriers. The third one concerned the motives for purchasing functional food and included the consequences and values. In the fourth section the participants were asked about gender, age and education. The results of this study allowed determining the most important attributes of functional food products. Among quality attributes the most important are safe food, natural product and healthy product. The most important organoleptic attributes include nice taste. Very important attributes of packaging and labelling include expiry date and information on the healthful properties of the product. The most important healthful properties are associated with the attributes (1) strengthens the immune system; (2) reduces the risk of certain cancers; (3) reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseases; (4) helps maintain the correct body weight; (5) strengthens eyesight; (6) improves memory; and (7) improves physical condition. The functional components concern mainly vitamins and minerals, omega‐3 fatty acids and dietary fibre. As the best base products, consideration was given to bread, dairy products, cereal products, mixtures of fruits and vegetables and meat products. In the motivation system there were distinguished functional consequences that included improvement of health, needs of the organism, and healthy eating and psychological consequences such as conscious choice and health promotion. The most important autotelic values include good health and long life, health safety, inner harmony, self‐respect and self‐confidence. The means to achieve these goals are responsibility for health and care for health. The study provides bases for a better understanding of the consumer's needs and optimization of activities related to the development and consumption of functional food. The results of this study may provide valuable support for actions connected with the promotion and marketing of food products.     

The effect of knowledge types on consumer‐perceived risk and adoption of genetically modified foods

Scientists have asserted that genetically modified (GM) food offers financial, environmental, health, and quality benefits to society, but the realization of such benefits depends on consumer acceptance of this new technology. Consumer concerns about GM food raise questions about what consumers know about GM food and to what extent this knowledge translates into their evaluations of GM products. The present research empirically examines the effect of both objective and subjective knowledge on perceived risk and, in turn, key consumer behaviors associated with GM food. The results reveal that objective knowledge about GM food significantly reduces performance and psychological risks, whereas subjective knowledge influences only physical risk, and the valence of that impact depends on the level of the consumer's objective knowledge. Furthermore, different risk types enhance consumers' information search and reduce their propensity to buy GM food. The overall findings thus suggest the need for cooperation among government, scientific institutions, and the food industry to foster effective communication strategies that increase consumers' objective knowledge, reduce their risk perceptions, and encourage consumer adoptions of GM technology. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

The Atkins Diet Phenomenon: How the Low Carbohydrate Lifestyle Has Revolutionized the Consumer Behavior of American Dieters

Abstract

Examined are the impact of the Atkins diet on the American diet conscious consumer and its impact on the market for consumer oriented diet foods, specifically foods low in carbohydrates and high in protein. Focusing on the fact that studies continue to show that as many as 25% of the American population is clinically obese, at least 100 pounds overweight, the recent obsession with low carbohydrate foods has created entirely new food related markets, markets for consumers products that are significantly different from the traditional food markets that have existed in the past. This paper will address the impact that the Atkins phenomenon has had on groceries, soft drinks, restaurant offerings, beer, fast food and supermarket products. It will show how these industries have been forced to modify their product lines to incorporate an ever escalating consumer demand for low carbohydrate products or risk being left behind in the expanding $42 billion food industry.     

Debunking the myth of general consumer rejection of green genetic engineering: Empirical evidence from Germany

The emergence of a more sustainable economy in Europe was accompanied by a range of bio‐based products and technologies. As a prominent example, green genetic engineering opens up multiple options to increase agricultural production, but its public acceptance seems to vary by application area. Risk perception explains consumer acceptance of green genetic engineering, which is a necessary precondition for wider technology adoption. This study investigates risk perceptions for four major sources of risk: health related, environmental, socioeconomic and ethical. Data were collected in a laboratory experiment in Germany, with a total of 439 participants. A between‐subject design was employed. The four experimental treatment groups comprised two policy scenarios, namely one only permitting research and development and the other allowing full commercialization of genetically modified products, and two product end‐uses, bioenergy and food. The study shows significant end‐use differences in both the type of policy scenario and the risk dimension in question. In particular, health risks were generally perceived to be lower for bioenergy than food whenever full commercialization was pursued. Furthermore, full commercialization of genetically modified food prompted higher concerns about personal health, whereas use of crops for bioenergy production was broadly related to higher levels of socioeconomic risk. Finally, although the majority of consumers identified health risks as being most relevant, the consequences for the environment evoked the greatest degree of risk perception. In general, our findings lend support for the notion that the policy regime is the most important determinant for risk perception, followed by the type of risk dimension and level of trust in industry.     

Effective Risk Relievers for Dimensional Perceived Risks on Mail-Order Purchase

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This article examines the effective risk relievers for different dimensions of perceived risk on mail-order purchase of food products. The sample comprised 1,600 active and inactive mail-order specialty food shoppers in the UK. The analysis focused on the correlation coefficients between consumers' levels of perceived risk and their weight on the importance of the risk relievers. Amongst 15 risk relievers, the results implied that there are certain risk relievers attached to higher levels of importance by consumers, who perceive higher levels of risks in certain aspects of mail-order purchase. Therefore, mail-order companies should promote the effective risk relievers to reduce specific dimensions of perceived risks.