Household Food Consumption and Quality Differentiation in Demand System: An Approach for Endogenous Prices |
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Authors: | Linda Verrill Conrad J Choinière |
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Institution: | 1. U.S. Food and Drug Administration , Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition , College Park, Maryland, USA Linda.Verrill@fda.hhs.gov;3. U.S. Food and Drug Administration , Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition , College Park, Maryland, USA |
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Abstract: | The authors surveyed consumers for preferences on allergen advisory statements on food labels (N = 1,243). They also conducted an experiment to assess how consumers use advisory statements (N = 4,049) to make food consumption decisions. Results show that food allergic individuals, including caregivers to food allergic individuals, and a control group of nonallergic people preferred “Allergen Information: May Contain …” over three other statements tested. The experiment revealed measurable differences among the statements in how they are used to make food consumption decisions. Statements rated as more believable and more helpful also received higher ratings on a “likelihood of eating/serving” measure. |
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Keywords: | Food allergy allergens food label advisory statement consumer preferences |
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