アイルランドにおける食品安全政策と消費者意識

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In this paper, we investigate food safety policies and consumers' attitudes toward food safety issue in Ireland.Firstly, the outline condition of the main food policies in Ireland, the regulation on food labeling, traceabilitysystem of beef and beef products, registration policy of organic food and geographical indication policy, arediscussed. As second part of analysis, consumers' attitude to food safety is analyzed using from questionnairesurvey of 137 local consumers in Galway, Ireland. The results are as followings. ⑴ Respondents' concerned topicon food safety issues were agricultural chemicals, food additives and BSE issue. ⑵ The degree of complaintagainst food safety efforts of government showed higher rate. ⑶ The results from probit analysis indicated that thedegree of complaint against government food safety policies showed higher in the respondents having strongeranxiety against food safety and younger generation. On the other hand, respondents purchasing daily food morefrequently or being in a family of large household members showed higher complaint to food safety effort ofproducers and distributers.
2009-03-31